Despite the well-known positive impact of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers hesitate to use them because …, clove cigarette taxes exert an effect that depends on the assumptions of conditional price elasticity. If the population is … more responsive to tobacco price changes, then people would experience even more gains from the health and work benefits …

Despite the obvious positive health impacts of tobacco taxation, an argument raised against it is that poor households … cigarette consumption patterns between less and more well-off households. These results hold even considering some small …

taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save … reduced smoking - reductions in medical expenses and earnings from adverted premature deaths - could bring small, albeit …

Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of … health outcomes. The distributional incidence is assessed by estimating decile-specific behavioral responses and relative … medical expenditures and additional years of productive life as taxes dissuade smoking. In several countries, increasing the …

Despite the well-known positive effects of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers avoid relying on such taxes … reduction in medical expenditures and a rise in working years caused by a reduction in the rate of smoking among the population … contribution is the quantification of impacts by allowing price elasticities to vary across consumption deciles. Overall, cigarette …

of smoking can be reduced, including shorter life expectancy, higher medical expenses, added years of disability among … changes (or participation elasticity estimates are included), then they would experience even more gains from the health and …

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …