Correction: Health, health inequality, and cost impacts of annual increases in tobacco tax: Multistate life table modeling in New Zealand (PLoS Med, (2015), 12, 7, e1001856, 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001856)

The authors identified an error in model coding used to produce results in the original article. This involved a swapping of a + and – sign for females within the model, which flowed out to many of the results. Therefore, many numbers have now slightly changed in the corrected versions of the main manuscript, Figs 1–5, S1 Fig and the extra results in S2 Text. (Image Presented). In addition to providing new versions of the main and S1 Fig, specific data have also been amended in the following files: · S1 Manuscript Table 2: Sex and age groups combined; all Women data; Per capita (QALYs/ 1,000 people and $) · S1 Manuscript Table 3: all data · S2 Text S6 Table: all data · S2 Text S7 Table: all data · S2 Text S8 Table: all data · S2 Text S9 Table: all data · S2 Text S11 Table: Sex and age groups combined; allWomen data; Per capita (QALYs/1,000 people and $) Corrected versions of Figs 1±5, S1 Fig, S2 Text, and the manuscript have been provided below. All qualitative conclusions in the text and the patterns in the graphs remain unchanged from the former version. That is the modeled tobacco tax interventions remain effective at generating large population health gains, reducing ethnic inequalities in health, and generating large cost savings to the health system. Supporting Information S1 Manuscript. Corrected manuscript. (DOCX) S1 Fig. Projected QALYs gained (thousands) and net health system costs saved (millions) by year for 10% per annum tax increase to 2031, by age cohort in 2011. (TIF) S2 Text. Corrected model, supplementary results, DISMOD II example, validation, epidemiological inputs, and health system costs (DOC).