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For most excise taxes, the best choice of tax baseThe tax base is the total amount of income, property, assets, consumption, transactions, or other economic activity subject to taxation by a tax authority

The key point is that the tobacco-owned companies did not produce more hyper-palatable food overall and they did not disproportionately increase their production of such foods during the period in question

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About half of Canadian smokers will die from a smoking-related ailment, most before the age of 70