UW News
Ali Goli
September 6, 2023
A tax on menthol cigarettes would work better than statewide bans, UW study finds
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New research from Simha Mummalaneni and Ali Goli, assistant professors of marketing in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, finds that a menthol cigarette tax is a preferable policy to scattered statewide bans.