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    Pathways for implementing alcohol taxes to safeguard public health and safety: Increasing alcohol taxes and reforming the alcohol tax administration in Kenya (2024)

    Implementing health taxes has been scientifically proven as being a sure tool in mitigating and addressing the consumption of alcohol products which are a great cause and concern for public health and the soul of the nation. Further, the appreciation of taxing alcoholic drinks is understood as an opportunity for policymakers to use available tools to promote healthy populations and minimize the negative externalities and internalities which have been associated with alcohol consumption. Thus, policymakers in Kenya should use alcohol taxes as an effective tool for policymakers to reduce alcohol consumption and harm. Read more…

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