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May 7, 2018
Economists, please note: The Bloomberg Summers Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health is Important
Published by: Evan Blecher, PhDRecently, former New York mayor and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., Michael Bloomberg, and Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and Chief Economist of the World Bank and currently professor of economics at Harvard University, announced the launch of a new Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health to promote the … Read more »
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April 30, 2018
New Tobacconomics research explores the effect of voluntary health warning messages in magazine ads on the perceived harmfulness of ENDS
With the rising popularity of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the United States, the relative and absolute harms of ENDS use have become a subject of heated debate in the public health community. From a continuum of risks perspective, ENDS are substantially less harmful than cigarettes, potentially reducing health … Read more »
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April 26, 2018
Moving from aggregate to individual level affordability of tobacco products: New research from Bangladesh
Published by: Evan Blecher, PhDIncreases in taxes, which increase the price of tobacco products, are considered to be the most effective tobacco control policy measure. However, as the burden of smoking has shifted from high-income to low- and middle-income countries, evaluating the trends in prices as a nominal anchor for tax policy has become … Read more »
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April 25, 2018
Study Finds that Money Spent on Tobacco Control Efforts Decreases Cigarette Sales
Published by: John Tauras, PhDA new paper published by Tobacconomics researchers in collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in the journal PLoS ONE finds that overall state spending on tobacco control has a significant negative impact on tax paid cigarette sales. Tobacconomics researchers John Tauras, Frank Chaloupka, and Jidong Huang in … Read more »
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April 5, 2018
The importance of Graphic Warning Labels on cigarette smoking prevalence and consumption
In 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations requiring tobacco companies to add Graphic Warning Labels (GWLs) to cigarette packages. However, tobacco companies challenged these regulations, arguing that the FDA had not yet established the effectiveness of GWLs in reducing smoking prevalence. Eventually, the Courts ruled … Read more »
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March 27, 2018
Focus on Latin America: Chaloupka makes the case for tobacco taxation
Coinciding with Frank Chaloupka’s presentation today at the 30th Annual UN/ECLAC Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar in Santiago, Chile, Tobacconomics researchers, German Rodriguez Iglesias and Frank Chaloupka, released today a policy brief that investigates the challenges and opportunities for comprehensive tobacco control policies in Latin America. ´The Economics of Tobacco and … Read more »