reduce the efficacy of policies intended to improve public health and create harms of their own. Enforcement can reduce …

We analyze data about cigarette tax compliance from the first national scale littered cigarette packs collection. We … provide evidence that noncompliance is due to both cross-border shopping and cigarette trafficking. OLS and binomial logit …

delivery systems for cigarette smoking …We examine recent survey data from California to investigate smokers' intended responses to an increase in cigarette … engaging in ITTP. Half of smokers intend to act in ways that undermine, at least partially, the public health rationale for …

Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent … increase in the state's cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some … figures. Smokers who roll their own cigarettes, e-cigarette users, younger smokers, and those with more income and education …

-tax states for resale. Thus, the product is attractive to lawbreakers. This chapter shows how raising cigarette taxes creates a … black market for cheap cigarettes and leads to interstate smuggling. Key takeaways: (1) Cigarette taxes have increased over … some jurisdictions result in rampant smuggling. The estimated revenues lost to cigarette tax avoidance are $5.1 billion. (3 …

Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes … was employed to evaluate: [1] health benefits (premature deaths averted); [2] health expenditures regarding smoking … quintiles. Conclusion: Increasing cigarette tax can provide health and financial benefits, and would be pro-poor in terms of …

This report estimates the revenue and distributional effects of increasing the state’s cigarette excise tax by $0 …-informed decisions, then economic theory predicts that an increase in the cigarette tax may benefit them by encouraging healthier …

To achieve the target and to reduce the cost and burden from smoking, the Malaysian government regulates and implements … several tobacco control policies and campaigns to control cigarette consumption and reduce the proportion of smokers in the … Malaysian population. It is undeniable that tobacco tax policy plays a significant role in reducing cigarette consumption …

threat that tobacco use inflicts on global public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented the Framework … of illicit tobacco products in the market is becoming a prevalent problem and a severe challenge to public health. The …