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 …,000 smoking-related deaths. The results also reveal considerable revenue gains if there were more rapid excise tax increases …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …