Tobacco Taxes: A Win–Win Measure for Fiscal Space and Health
This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries —the People’s Republic of China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. For each of these countries, increasing taxes on cigarettes would result in substantially fewer long-term smokers and a reduction in premature deaths from tobacco-related diseases, while increasing tax revenues. The poorest groups in each country only bear a small part of the extra tax burdens, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking.
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2012-11
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Institutions: | Asian Development Bank ; Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
Subject: | adb | asian development bank | asdb | asia | pacific | poverty asia | health | government revenue | health care | cigarettes | cigarette taxes asia | smoking | asian smokers | tobacco control | cigarette prices | tobacco | disease reduction | chronic diseases | smoking deaths | smoking related illnesses | sin tax | lung diseases |
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