
Building a Healthier Zambia: Why Health Taxes Matter to Every Citizen
Health is not only what happens in hospitals. It is what a country decides to make cheap, what it decides to make expensive, and what it chooses to protect.

Health is not only what happens in hospitals. It is what a country decides to make cheap, what it decides to make expensive, and what it chooses to protect.

The price on the shelf is only the deposit. The rest of the bill is settled later — in hospital wards, in lost workdays, in road crashes and in households that never fully recover.

Almost every lifelong smoker started before turning twenty. Whatever protects a teenager from that first purchase protects an adult for the following fifty years.

A health tax is not a punishment. It is a price correction — an honest attempt to make the cost of a harmful product reflect the harm it leaves behind.
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