Cigarette Tax Scorecard (3rd Edition)

The Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard (3rd edition) was written by Jeffrey Drope, Saw Min Thu Oo, Hye Myung Lee, Margaret Dorokhina, Carlos Guerrero, Germán Rodriguez-Iglesias, Ana Mugosa, Maryam Mirza, Anita Bontu, and Frank Chaloupka. The 3rd edition of the Scorecard assesses the performance of cigarette tax policies in 170 countries. It uses 2022 data from the WHO Global Tobacco Control Reports to score countries on a five-point scale, thus providing policy makers with an actionable assessment. There are four scoring components used: the cigarette price, changes in affordability, the tax share of the price, and the tax structure used. Each country receives a score for each component, in addition to an overall score. The Scorecard shows that governments have made insufficient progress, and even regressed, 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. 

Access the entire Data set with the country scores here. 

Watch the webinar launch here.

View the first edition of the Cigarette Tax Scorecard here.