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A Case for Banning the Sale of Filtered Cigarettes
After the 1950s, the cigarette began to evolve from being a paper tube with shredded dried tobacco leaf into a product that also included an acetate tow filter. The filtered cigarette was marketed by tobacco companies as a healthier, milder option for the more image and health conscious smoker. Years after such marketing was stripped…
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Cigarette consumption has been increasing in Bangladesh even after a decade of tax and price increases: What went wrong?
Despite a high share of tax in price (greater than the WHO’s 75% benchmark) with periodic tax and price increases, cigarette consumption has been increasing in Bangladesh over the last decade. Between 2006-07 and 2016-17, the volume of tax-paid cigarette sales increased by 83%. At the same time, the share of low-price cigarette consumption increased…
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Differences in cigarette prices across EU Member States affect cross-border cigarette purchases
The European Union (EU) has been one of the world’s champions of high cigarette excise taxes. Thanks in part to its Tobacco Tax Directive, the EU is the region with the highest average cigarette prices in the world. As we wrote in a previous blog post, the European Commission is, encouragingly, working on a possible…
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Tobacco control community’s strong voice in the EU Tobacco Tax Directive revision process
The European Union (EU) is the region with the highest cigarette prices in the world on average. Each year, high cigarette prices help many European Union residents stick to their long-term goals of living healthy and productive lives. The high cost of cigarettes encourages large number of smokers to quit and discourages millions of non-smokers…
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The Tobacco Industry Uses Pricing to Undermine Tobacco Tax Policy: Evidence from Bangladesh
The effectiveness of a tax increase in reducing tobacco use depends on the extent to which the tobacco industry passes on the tax increase to consumers. It is well-known by now that the industry absorbs tax increases more commonly for cheaper brands, for which demand is more price sensitive and holding prices down is critical…
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Nearly 70 Million Smokers in Latin America are at Risk of Tobacco-Related Death and Disease
November 13, 2018 (New York, USA) – Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans continue to die every year from tobacco-related disease, according to the American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies, co-publishers of the Tobacco Atlas, Sixth Edition, now available in Spanish. While the proportion of the population who use tobacco has nearly halved across the…
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Casi 70 Millones de Fumadores Están en Riesgo de Muerte y Padecer Enfermedades Relacionadas al Tabaco en América Latina
A 13 de noviembre de 2018 (Nueva York, EEUU) – Cientos de miles de latinoamericanos continúan muriendo cada año por enfermedades relacionadas al tabaquismo, según la Sociedad Americana del Cáncer y Vital Strategies, coeditoras de El Atlas del Tabaco, sexta edición, ahora disponible en español. Si bien la proporción de la población que consume tabaco…
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Thanks and Acknowledgement
It takes many people to make a project like The Tobacco Atlas come together. At risk of excluding people who helped us along the way, we would like to acknowledge some very key actors. First and foremost, Johnny Hsu at Vital Strategies and John Daniel at ACS might not have officially authored any chapters, but…
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Countering the Narrative of Prosperity for Smallholder Tobacco Farmers: Evidence from Kenya
In recent years, there has been a systematic shift in tobacco farming to the world’s lower-Human Development Index (HDI) countries that tend to struggle economically and where governance is often weak. With little or no evidence, the tobacco industry pushes a loud narrative that tobacco control (e.g., tobacco taxation, smoke-free places, packaging/labeling provisions, marketing bans,…