Health Taxes to Save Lives-- Background Materials: Briefs
This report was prepared for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health report, Health Taxes to Save Lives: Employing Effective Excise Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages. There are three background policy briefs supporting the report for the Task Force: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Harms, Consumption, and Costs; Using Fiscal Policy to Promote Health: Taxing Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages; and Structure and Tactics of the Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverage Industries.
April 2019
Content Type: Policy Brief, Report
Topic(s): Alcohol, Cost-effectiveness, Economic consequences, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Health consequences, Healthcare costs, Impact on demand, Impact on the poor, Other fiscal policies for health, Prevalence and consumption, Sugary beverages and junk food, Tax and price, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco taxes revenues, Tobacco use
Authors(s): Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Lisa Powell, Ph.D.
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