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• September 11, 2018

  Latin America Tobacco Tax Research Network in Full Swing

  Last week at the Mercosur Parliament in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Tobacconomics team participated in a research review meeting with its Latin America think tank partner network coordinated by the South American Network on Applied Economics (Red Sur). The Tobacco Taxes in Latin America project mobilizes seven Latin American research centers to … Read more »

• August 10, 2018

  Tobacco Tax Increases Are Needed to Achieve the SDGs

  Although tobacco taxes may not seem to be the topic du jour in many development policy circles, these taxes, as part of a comprehensive tobacco control package, are helpful in achieving many of the sustainable development goals. A new brief by Tobacconomics Director, Frank Chaloupka, makes the case for increasing … Read more »

• July 10, 2018

  United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs: An opportunity to use fiscal measures to reduce the health and economic impact of NCDs

    As part of the preparatory process for the upcoming third High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on September 27, 2018, the President of the General Assembly, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), hosted an interactive hearing on July … Read more »

• May 7, 2018

  Economists, please note: The Bloomberg Summers Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health is Important

  Published by: Evan Blecher, PhD

    Recently, 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 »

• 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 »

• April 26, 2018

  Moving from aggregate to individual level affordability of tobacco products: New research from Bangladesh

  Published by: Evan Blecher, PhD

    Increases 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 »