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This report presents results of the modelling exercise in terms of excise tax increases for the period 2018-2021, including average excise tax and revenue mobilization options; it also compares the tobacco excise tax already included in the country's current tax code with that necessary to...
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-attributable diseases, catastrophic health expenditures, and extreme poverty averted. The additional tax burden is, however, borne mostly by … the top income group in the 62 percent price increase scenario. Thus, tobacco taxes are an effective way to improve health …
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: smoking is bad for your health.' Since October 4, 2012, large (50 percent of the pack surface area), graphic health …Smoking is a leading cause of preventable premature deaths. Smoking's effects will continue to devastate lives in many … countries, including Ukraine, if measures are not implemented to reduce its prevalence. Smoking is a major cause of many chronic …
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Russia's spatial disparities stem largely from its economic geography, which is unique and has no parallels even when … and even lower population densities than Russia, a large share of their populations live near the border or the sea. In … contrast, Russia's people are more dispersed inland. Moreover, the populations of Australia and Canada are concentrated in …
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In China, changing demographics, rising incomes and shifting consumer preferences have resulted in an ever-growing demand for food that is more varied, healthier and of higher quality and this demand is set to persist well into the future. According to International Monetary Fund projections...
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In Q2, Russia's GDP contracted sharply, faced with domestic supply and demand, and terms of trade shocks. Yet supported …
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-14 on prices, consumption levels, and tax revenues in Senegal, as well as the response by tobacco companies to such …
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Indonesia has one of the highest rates of cigarette consumption in the world. Tobacco use heavily burdens population … health, undermines the quest for universal health coverage, and inflicts heavy direct and indirect economic costs. Higher … tobacco taxes to increase cigarette prices contribute to reducing tobacco consumption and hence tobacco-related disease and …
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As a country with one of the highest male smoking rates and one of the lowest cigarette prices in the world, Korea has … prioritized many tobacco control efforts, including bans on smoking in public places, regulations on tobacco advertising, and …
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and prices have contributed to an alarming expansion in consumption. A complex tax structure assists in keeping cigarette … prices low in Bangladesh. Current taxation policy does not achieve the dual objective of discouraging consumption and …
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