Tobacco & Poverty
This policy brief investigates how tobacco use makes the poor poorer and how tobacco tax increases can improve the distributional consequences of tobacco use. The findings in this brief are primarily based on the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) & World Health Organization (WHO) Monograph on The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control.
March 2018
Location(s): Global
Project: Think Tanks Project: Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Content Type: Policy Brief
Topic(s): Economic consequences, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Impact on the poor, Tax and price, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco use
Authors(s): Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Evan Blecher, Ph.D.
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