This WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration builds upon the 2010 WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration by further detailing the strategies for effective tobacco tax policy development, design, implementation and administration. This 2021 edition also serves as an update to the 2010 manual, incorporating the latest developments in science, technology […]
WHO
The 2012 Philippines Sin Tax Law (STL) brought about long-overdue reforms to tobacco and alcohol taxation to promote better health, improve financial sustainability, and good governance. The STL greatly simplified and increased excise taxes, especially on cigarettes. In 2012, cigarettes were widely sold at apiece or even less—an amount equivalent to a couple of U.S. […]
world bank
world bank
The objective of this study was to assess the smoking situation in Brazil, and the role of the tobacco control program, and compare it to experience in other countries. The study assessed key trends in smoking rates and lung cancer in Brazil and reviewed price and non-price interventions. A discussion of fiscal instruments and smuggling […]
World Bank
World Bank
The second edition of the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard is out today and shows that governments have made insufficient progress in addressing the world’s leading cause of preventable death, despite established evidence that the most effective tool—tobacco taxation—would reduce smoking and increase revenues. The global average cigarette tax score has barely risen over the past […]
Tobacco Economics
The second edition of the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard is out today and shows that governments have made insufficient progress in addressing the world’s leading cause of preventable death, despite established evidence that the most effective tool—tobacco taxation—would reduce smoking and increase revenues. The global average cigarette tax score has barely risen over the past […]
Tobacco Economics
The Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard was written by Frank J. Chaloupka, Jeffrey Drope, Erika Siu, Violeta Vulovic, Michal Stoklosa, Maryam Mirza, German Rodriguez-Iglesias, and Hye Myung Lee. The Scorecard assesses the performance of cigarette tax policies in over 170 countries. It uses data from the WHO Global Tobacco Control Reports to score countries on a […]
Cigarette Tax Scorecard
Tobacco Economics
Two new analyses of whistleblower documents and court records by the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath and published by STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, suggest that British American Tobacco PLC (BAT) allegedly used payments to dozens of individuals and potentially unlawful surveillance to tighten its already crushing market grip on […]
University of Bath
Taxation is known to be the most cost-effective tobacco control measure available to governments throughout the world. Higher tobacco taxes are also referred to as ‘win-win’ policies because they generate extra government revenue while at the same time reduce long-term tobacco consumption. Many health professionals have therefore been advocating for higher levels of tobacco taxation […]
WHO
The South East Asian Region (SEAR) includes eleven countries and hosts more than a quarter of the world’s population.1 The region includes one of the largest countries (India), and one of the smallest (Maldives).23 The full list of countries included in SEAR are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPR Korea), India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, […]
Sri Lanka ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2003 and implemented some comprehensive tobacco control policies. From June 1, 2015, health warnings on cigarette packages in Sri Lanka have to cover 80 percent of the large sides. In 2005-2006, about 38.0 percent of men and less than 1 percent of women were current […]
Sri Lanka : Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation and Taxation
World Bank Group
Turkey’s government increased tobacco tax revenue and lowered tobacco consumption by increasing tobacco tax rates significantly between 2003 and 2013. However, both per capita tobacco consumption and total cigarette sales in Turkey have begun to increase again in recent years. Although the recent rise in cigarette sales may be attributed to the influx of Syrian […]
Tobacco Taxation in Turkey
Cetinkaya, Volkan; Marquez, Patricio V
This publication was commissioned and published in the hope that descriptions of strategies, successes, and setbacks in promoting stronger tobacco control policies around the world would be of wide interest and might be useful to people grappling with similar issues. As participants in academic, advocacy, and policy meetings on tobacco control, we have been struck […]
Tobacco Control Policy Control Policy : Strategies Successes and Setbacks
de Beyer, Joy; Waverley Brigden, Linda
The European Union has a long experience in tobacco tax harmonization, which provides useful lessons learned. In the European Union, tobacco tax harmonization took place in stages, and currently all Member States have agreed upon definitions, tax base, and minimum excise duty rates for all product categories of manufactured tobacco. Tobacco tax harmonization pursues several […]
Tobacco Taxation in the European Union : An Overview
Bouw, Annerie.
Evidence from across the world shows that raising taxes sharply on tobacco products, and then adjusting for inflation and increased affordability due to growing incomes, is the single most cost-effective measure to reduce tobacco consumption. A scaled-up and stronger tobacco control effort is required in Trinidad and Tobago to achieve the WHO-recommended target of at […]
World Bank
During 2020–2024, the government of Indonesia is focused on improving the wellbeing of Indonesians by taking advantage of the demographic dividend for allinclusive economic growth. And, recognizing the critical dual causality concept, human capital development has been declared a top priority for the government – specifically, improving the health of citizens to impact on productivity and […]
Overview The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) was developed by the Tobacco-Free Initiative (TFI), World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office on Smoking and Health of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with other countries representing the six WHO regions. Its aim was to generate a comprehensive information on […]
Overview In 2018 alone, over 3.5million hectares of land were harvested for tobacco. Tobacco growing is destroying our environment and threatening our health. As regulations tighten in middle- and high- income countries, tobacco companies are increasingly targeting African countries to scale-up tobacco leaf production. In Africa, tobacco crop yields increased by 10% from 2012 to 2018. Its impact is […]
Overview This WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration builds upon the 2010 WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration by further detailing the strategies for effective tobacco tax policy development, design, implementation and administration. This 2021 edition also serves as an update to the 2010 manual, incorporating the latest developments in science, […]
This technical manual aims to help governments improve health and increase revenues by identifying a set of “best practices” for tobacco taxation. It documents governments’ existing approaches to tobacco taxation, discusses barriers to using tobacco taxes to achieve health and revenue objectives and provides case studies of effective tobacco tax administration. This manual is intended […]
More than one billion people in 19 countries are now covered by laws requiring large, graphic health warnings on packages of tobacco, nearly double the number of two years ago, when only about 547 million people were covered in 16 countries, WHO reports today in its third periodic report on the global tobacco epidemic. Mexico, […]
WHO’s new technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration shows countries ways to cut down on over US$1.4 trillion in health expenditures and lost productivity due to tobacco use worldwide. Improved tobacco taxation policies can also be a key component of building back better after COVID-19, where countries need additional resources to respond and to finance […]
The tobacco market, like many other markets, is subject to illegal activities, primarily related to tax evasion and counterfeiting of legal products. Since a sizable illicit tobacco market can both deprive governments of much needed revenue and undermine the effectiveness of tobacco control efforts, governments dealing with the issue have developed a set of strategies […]
POLICY BRIEF
Hana Ross
Tobacco use kills 6 million people each year, and this could rise to 8 million by 2030 if the global epidemic is left unchecked. With over 80% of premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases- of which tobacco use is the main risk factor- occurring in developing countries, tackling tobacco use needs to be recognized by the […]
The economic and health benefits of tobacco taxation
WHO and FCTC
This publication looks at the experience of nine countries (Bangladesh is one of these countries) that have experience in earmarking tobacco tax revenues for health purposes. It describes the challenges, setbacks and achievements of those countries in this field. The studies of the nine countries indicate that there is no single formula for establishing an […]
Earmarked tobacco taxes: lessons learnt from nine countries
WHO
British American Tobacco is taking advantage of accounting loopholes to systematically shift profits out of low- and middle-income countries to avoid paying the full corporate income tax in the countries that most need these revenues, according to a new analysis published by the Tax Justice Network. Cigarettes cost the world $1.4 trillion annually in healthcare costs and lost […]
Matthew L. Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids