{"id":27939,"date":"2016-09-15T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/?p=27939"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:07:48","slug":"tassa-di-un-cent-a-sigaretta-per-pagare-i-farmaci-anticancro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/tassa-di-un-cent-a-sigaretta-per-pagare-i-farmaci-anticancro\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax of one cent per cigarette to pay for cancer drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"artdesc\"><em>Healthcare, with the cut of 1.5 billion euros, a new sting for smokers is coming. In fact, a new tax on smoking will be introduced to finance the arrival of anti-cancer drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"artdesc\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romagnamamma.it\/2016\/09\/tassa-di-un-cent-a-sigaretta-per-pagare-i-farmaci-anticancro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">15 September 2016 \u2013 Romagna Mamma editorial staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/d3oiytnf1iaxz3.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/donna-fumo.jpg\" alt=\"donna fumo sigarette\" width=\"345\" height=\"230\" \/>Someone, in deference to extreme individualism, would like smokers (as well as drug addicts and alcoholics) to pay <strong>medical care yourself<\/strong>: the economic question, at least for these categories, would be resolved in this way. The (significant) disbursement for public coffers would decrease and not a little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Italian government, on the other hand, is evaluating another route and plans to use tobacco users to finance treatment for all cancer patients: to meet the cost of\u00a0<strong>very expensive anti-cancer drugs of the latest generation<\/strong> in fact he is thinking of a tax on cigarettes. This would be an extra 20 cents per pack, one cent per cigarette, which would make it possible to raise around 700 million euros each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe have been asking for the creation of a special fund for new anti-cancer medicines for some time \u2013 declares a <em>Republic<\/em> Carmine Pinto, president of Aiom, the Italian association of medical oncology - <strong>We are working on it together with Aifa and the ministry<\/strong>. It would be a structural intervention but in the meantime the purpose tax on cigarettes can also be fine, as a buffer measure &quot;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For Silvio Garattini of the Mario Negri institute in Milan &quot;more should be asked: one euro per package&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Related news:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/sanita-ancora-tagli-li-chiede-lue-e-spunta-una-tassa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Healthcare: more cuts, the EU is asking for them. And there&#039;s a fee<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanit\u00e0, con il taglio di 1,5 miliardi di euro in arrivo una nuova stangata per i fumatori. Per finanziare l\u2019arrivo dei farmaci anti-tumorali, infatti, verr\u00e0 introdotta una nuova tassa sul fumo. 15 settembre 2016 &#8211;\u00a0Redazione Romagna Mamma Qualcuno, in ossequio all\u2019individualismo estremo, vorrebbe che i fumatori (cos\u00ec come i tossicodipendenti e gli alcolizzati) si pagassero &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,79],"class_list":["post-27939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","tag-prezzo-farmaci","tag-ssn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}