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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…
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When Tobacco Crowds Out Rice
The burden of the tobacco epidemic is always tragic, but it is particularly problematic for those in economic need. Losing a breadwinner to a tobacco-related disease often means years in poverty for the smoker’s family. More often, though, increased tobacco consumption leads to decreased family budget to purchase other essential goods—e.g., food, clothes, and hygiene…
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Three New Ways Tobacco Companies Evade Packaging Regulations
Warning labels are applied to consumer products to educate and help the user know that the item may be harmful. Graphic warning labels and other packaging regulations on tobacco products are meant to educate smokers and other tobacco users about the grave consequences of their habit, but tobacco companies frequently try to get around new…
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