Health Taxes to Save Lives-- Background Materials: Case Studies

This report was prepared for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, and a supplement to the report, Health Taxes to Save Lives: Employing Effective Excise Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages. The report discusses the following case studies: tobacco taxes in the Philippines, sugary beverage taxes in Mexico, and alcoholic beverage taxes in South Africa.

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April 2019

Location(s): Africa, Asia, Global, Latin America and the Carribbean, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa

Content Type: Case study

Topic(s): Alcohol, Cost-effectiveness, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Impact on demand, Other fiscal policies for health, Sugary beverages and junk food, Tax and price, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco taxes revenues

Authors(s): Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Lisa Powell, Ph.D.

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