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Photo by Sgt. Jessika Braden/ U.S. Marine Corps This article contains themes of suicide. Reader discretion is advised. ‘I understand the purpose of annual training … But we are lying to ourselves if we try to wrap suicide into a neat little box’ When I think of suicide, I don’t think of annual training slides, 22 pushup challenges, or the “thoughts and prayers” from social media posts. Instead, I think about the phone call with my mom.
When I think of suicide, I don’t think of annual training slides, 22 pushup challenges, or the “thoughts and prayers” from social media posts. Instead, I think about the phone call with my mom. I think about needing to call her because I had just been told that my friend had taken his own life. I think about the concern in her voice when she paused to ask me if I was OK.
Cigarette smoking remains the greatest cause of preventable mortality in the United States, and cigarette excise taxes are commonly used to deter tobacco use. Despite much existing research on the effects of cigarette taxes on smoking prevalence, very little is known about how smokers reallocate their household budgets when cigarette taxes increase.
Research reported in this publication was supported by the University of Kentucky’s Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise and by the National Institute On Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01DA045016. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We appreciate research assistance from Guthrie Scoblic.
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