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 … contribution is the quantification of impacts by allowing price elasticities to vary across consumption deciles. Overall, cigarette …

The results in this report for the Russian Federation support the use of tobacco taxation as an effective means to … reduce tobacco consumption, raise government revenues, increase public health and promote income equality …