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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…
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Blowing Smoke in Santiago, Chile – The Myth of Growing Illicit Trade
Cortinas de humo en Santiago de Chile – El Mito del Aumento del Contrabando En Chile, como en muchos países, el contrabando de cigarrillos es un tema controversial, oscuro y sensible. Como se muestra en el Atlas del Tabaco, la industria tabacalera usa la supuesta amenaza del incremento en el contrabando para oponerse a alzas…
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As cigarettes become more affordable, the number of Zambian smokers increases
Economic analysis of tobacco product demand in Zambia The new study used data from the 2012 and 2014 waves of the ITC Survey to examine the probability of smoking in Zambia. The modeling allowed for precise analyses of the impact of price on cigarette use in the country. Switching between factory-made and roll-your-own cigarettes was…
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Tobacco Products in Bangladesh Are Becoming More Affordable
Increasing the price of tobacco products by raising tobacco excise taxes is recognized widely—including by the World Health Organization— as the single most effective policy for reducing tobacco use. Put simply, higher prices typically lead to decreased consumption. However, the affordability of tobacco products matters more than the price alone because changes in household income…
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NIDA Announces a Research E-Cigarette: Brings More Certainty to Clinical Studies
Over the past century, efforts to study the health effects of cigarette smoking have also led to tremendous advances in the way we conduct clinical and population health science research. An important innovation in the development of laboratory experiments on smoking was the development of the research cigarette, seen below. This research cigarette helped settle…
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
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…