The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes … policy makers with an overview of relevant issues and feasible policy choices in setting health taxes based on questions that … emerge from the field during health tax reforms. This third brief in the series explores growth and domestic demand for …

Major risk factors for NCDs in Samoa include poor nutrition, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and physical …

over the age of 15, and the numbers are rising (World Health Organization 2002). Studies show that many smokers still do … not know that tobacco causes disease and premature death. Many others know little beyond a vague notion that "smoking is …-related health risks. Strongly worded, specific, large label information on tobacco product packages provides important public health …

Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks … continuously or frequently exposed to tobacco smoke at work. In France, where there are laws restricting smoking in public spaces …, employers have a legal responsibility to protect the health of their employees. Smoke-free workplaces can reduce employers …

-reported sex worker diaries which include detailed information on sexual behavior, labor supply, and health shocks, the authors … find that sex workers adjust their supply of risky, better compensated sex to cope with unexpected health shocks, exposing … responses entail significant health risks for sex workers and their partners, and suggest that sex workers are unable to cope …

"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial …, knowledge and training in pesticide use and handling, sources of information, protective measures, and health effects. A two …-equation bivariate probit model was initially estimated for health impairment and trader perception with health effects as an endogenous …

pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as … endogenous dummy variables. Health effects (the first equation) were found to be strictly a function of the amount of pesticides …