Tobacco taxes as a tobacco control strategy

Tobacco taxes as a tobacco control strategy.

BACKGROUND Increases in tobacco taxes are widely regarded as a highly effective strategy for reducing tobacco use and its consequences. METHODS The voluminous literature on tobacco taxes is assessed, drawing heavily from seminal and recent publications reviewing the evidence on the impact of tobacco taxes on tobacco use and related outcomes, as well as that on tobacco tax administration. RE...

Tobacco taxes and regressivity.

Recent literature on tobacco taxation suggests that optimal tax rates should be very high. But such high taxes raise concerns over regressivity. Most econometric estimates of elasticities by income group use historic price data that are low, and the usefulness of such estimates is therefore questionable on account of the serious 'out of sample' prediction problem. To address that problem, this ...

Tobacco industry denormalisation as a tobacco control intervention: a review.

OBJECTIVE To conduct a review of research examining the effects of tobacco industry denormalisation (TID) on smoking-related and attitude-related outcomes. METHODS The authors searched Pubmed and Scopus databases for articles published through December 2010 (see figure 1). We included all peer-reviewed TID studies we could locate that measured smoking-related outcomes and attitudes toward the...

Earmarking Tobacco Taxes for Health Purposes via Median Entities

Tobacco control in tobacco-producing countries.

Editor – Adamson Muula accurately points out the difficulties inherent in the control of tobacco use in a major tobacco leaf-producing country like Malawi (1). However, several statements need clarification. First of all, his title ''The challenges facing Third World countries in banning tobacco'' implies that the goal of tobacco control is to ban tobacco use. It is not. The World Health Organi...