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Without the tax cut, beer brewers and most alcoholic-beverage producers would have been looking at a higher tax bill in January that would have either been forced upon customers or caused some brewers to close up shop. Distillers faced a 400 percent tax hike without the legislation. The tax cut reduced the amount that distilleries …

This work was supported in part by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Grant No. 77202) and Bloomberg Philanthropies (grant to the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico). Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez also received support from Harvard University through the Lown Scholars Program. The authors are grateful to Carolina Batis from the National Institute of Public …