This policy note presents simulation estimates for the fiscal and health impact of raising tobacco taxes in Ukraine … reveal clear fiscal and health benefits, thus providing compelling evidence for increasing tobacco taxes in Ukraine. We … through the Tobacco Excise Tax Simulation Model (TETSiM). It outlines two scenarios for tax reform, which differ in terms of …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of … other tobacco control policies, such as advertising restrictions, prominent in tobacco control debates. Research addressing …While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills …

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …

the open market. Our results suggest that divesting from tobacco stocks is ineffective at improving public health or at …Many investors do not want to finance morally objectionable activities with their money, such as smoking. But is … investing in the shares of tobacco companies the same as financing the tobacco business? Analyzing two decades of data we find …

Despite the well-known positive effects of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers avoid relying on such taxes … applied incorporates the negative price effect caused by an increase in tobacco taxes, combined with a presumed future … reduction in medical expenditures and a rise in working years caused by a reduction in the rate of smoking among the population …