IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Tobacco Control, Vol.14: Effectiveness of Tax and Price Policies for Tobacco Control
This new volume of the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention in Tobacco Control presents a critical review and evaluation of the evidence by 25 international experts from twelve countries on the economics, epidemiology, public policy and tobacco control aspects of tax and price policies. The working group draws conclusions about the effectiveness of tax and price measures to control tobacco use in the population.
The Handbook covers an overview of tobacco taxation; industry pricing strategies and other industry initiatives diluting the effects of taxes on consumption; tax, price and aggregated demand for tobacco, as well as demand at the individual level in adults, young people and the economically disadvantaged; tax avoidance and tax evasion and the economic and health impacts of tobacco taxation.
This body of evidence and the consensus evaluation of 18 concluding statements on the impact of interventions to increase the price of tobacco products, can assist policy makers, government officials, evaluators and researchers working in tobacco control and disease prevention, to base their decisions on the latest scientific evidence.
May 2011
Location(s): Global
Content Type: Report
Topic(s): Economic impacts of tobacco control, Health consequences, Impact on demand, Impact on the poor, Industry pricing, Information interventions, Supply-side issues and interventions, Tax and price, Tax avoidance and evasion, Tobacco control policies and programs, Youth access
Authors(s): Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Evan Blecher, Ph.D., Luke Clancy, Laura Currie, Sophia Delipalla, Esteve Fernández, Silvano Gallus, Anna Gilmore, Fiona Godfrey, Teh-Wei Hu, Roberto Iglesias, Luk Joossens, Carlo La Vecchia, David Levy, Nigar Nargis, Ph.D., Lien Nguyen, Zeynep Onder, Markku Pekurinen, Anne-Marie Perucic, Hana Ross, Ph.D., Katherine Smith, John Tauras, Ph.D., Frank van Driessche, Corné van Walbeek, Ayda Aysun Yürekli
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