The intended purpose of this tool is to let readers gain the necessary knowledge about tobacco smuggling. With this …, and impact on other policy goals. For example, if enhanced tax revenue is one goal of a tobacco taxation policy, smuggling … can be an important consideration, since smuggled tobacco avoids taxation. Likewise, tobacco smuggling can have an impact …

Currently there are approximately 4 million tobacco related deaths annually. If present trends continue, by the year …, government action to establish various tobacco control initiatives can prevent this from happening and save a significant number … of lives. Tobacco control measures include: i) raising tobacco prices by imposing higher excise taxes; ii) advertising …

partly offset by declining rates of smoking. This paper examines historical trends in tobacco excise, focussing on the recent …Tobacco excise has grown strongly over the last few years as significant increases in the excise rate have been only … past including the impact of significant policy changes over the last decade, and then discusses how tobacco excise is …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

The study examines prevalence of tobacco use in Estonia, expenditures by smokers, and the prevalence of prominent … diseases for which tobacco use is an important risk factor. It estimates private and public direct and indirect costs … associated with smoking in Estonia for 1998, looking at health care costs, fires, loss of household income, productivity losses …

This study of the tobacco industry and taxation policy in Morocco summarizes tobacco expenditure data from surveys, and … policy on tobacco demand and tax revenues. Data and estimation model specifications are described, and the results presented … of different simulations of tax/price increases on tobacco consumption and tax revenues. The analysis shows that modest …

, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose of this series is to provide … tobacco leaf. The knowledge note series is funded under the Health Tax Workstream of the World Bank's Global Tax Program …