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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,…
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Juul from a Global Perspective
A Popular Product The Tobacco Atlas Team is based in the United States, but we hail from all parts of the world and perhaps consequently, we tend to think about tobacco control from a decidedly global perspective. Recently, one of the liveliest topics in tobacco control has been about a specific e-cigarette brand that has…
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Telling the evidence-based truth about illicit trade in Colombia
Evidencia y espejismos sobre el comercio ilícito de cigarrillos en Colombia Es una experiencia recurrente en muchos países del mundo: la industria tabacalera no escatima esfuerzos para socavar iniciativas de aumento del impuesto al tabaco. Colombia no es la excepción y, desafortunadamente, los medios de comunicación han sido catalizadores, y posiblemente cómplices, de la diseminación…
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Price Tiers in Bangladesh’s Cigarette Tax Structure is Discouraging Smokers to Quit
Raising taxes is not enough in a tiered tax structure. To increase the number of successful quitters and reduce consumption, tax reform is necessary that would apply a uniform tax rate across all tiers. By Nigar Nargis
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All at once, Georgia implements comprehensive tobacco control law
Today, while much of the Tobacco Atlas Team calls the US state of Georgia home, we want to tip our collective caps to the country of Georgia for implementing one of the strongest single comprehensive tobacco control laws in the world. We are hard-pressed to find an example of a law that did more to…