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Sin tax, the Glossary

A sin tax (also known as a sumptuary tax, or vice tax) is an excise tax specifically levied on certain goods deemed harmful to society and individuals, such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, candies, soft drinks, fast foods, coffee, sugar, gambling, and pornography.^[1]

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Alcohol (drug)

Alcohol, sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is one of the most widely used and abused psychoactive drugs in the world and falls under the depressant category.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Candy

Candy, alternatively called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Cigarette taxes in the United States

In the United States, cigarettes are taxed at both the federal and state levels, in addition to any state and local sales taxes and local cigarette-specific taxes.

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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.

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Consumption tax

A consumption tax is a tax levied on consumption spending on goods and services. Sin tax and consumption tax are personal taxes.

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Environmental tax

An environmental tax, ecotax (short for ecological taxation), or green tax is a tax levied on activities which are considered to be harmful to the environment and is intended to promote environmentally friendly activities via economic incentives.

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Excise

url. Sin tax and Excise are tax terms.

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Fast food

Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service.

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Gambling

Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.

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Land value tax

A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.

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Legality of cannabis

The legality of cannabis for medical and recreational use varies by country, in terms of its possession, distribution, and cultivation, and (in regards to medical) how it can be consumed and what medical conditions it can be used for.

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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research.

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Müskirat resmi

Müskirat resmi was a tax on alcohol in the Ottoman Empire.

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Meat tax

A meat tax is a tax levied on meat and/or other animal products to help cover the health and environmental costs that result from using animals for food.

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Michael Joyner

Michael Joseph Joyner is an American anesthesiologist and physiologist who researches exercise physiology.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Paternalism

Paternalism is action that limits a person's or group's liberty or autonomy and is intended to promote their own good.

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Pigouvian tax

A Pigouvian tax (also spelled Pigovian tax) is a tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities (i.e., external costs incurred by third parties that are not included in the market price).

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Pornography

Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal.

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Regressive tax

A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases.

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Sales tax

A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. Sin tax and sales tax are tax terms.

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Smuggling

Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.

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Soft drink

A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Sugary drink tax

A sugary drink tax, soda tax, or sweetened beverage tax (SBT) is a tax or surcharge (food-related fiscal policy) designed to reduce consumption of sweetened beverages by making them more expensive to purchase.

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Sumptuary law

Sumptuary laws (from Latin sūmptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that try to regulate consumption.

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Tobacco smoking

Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_tax

Also known as Demerit tax, Health tax, Punitive tax, Sin taxes, Sinners' tax, Vice tax.