Today is International Women’s Day, and discussions at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health are focused on the successes and challenges of tobacco control efforts among women. In recognition of this day, we would like to highlight some of our past research, which focuses on weight control beliefs among women that compromise the eff... Read More about Helping Women Kick the Habit: Weight Control Beliefs as a Deterrent to Cessation
This week, the Tobacconomics group released a new Policy Brief examining the global evidence linking tobacco use to poverty and the difference tobacco taxation can make in disrupting cyclical poverty. This Brief challenges the assumption that tobacco taxes are regressive and the hurt the poor, and instead shows that increasing tobacco tax... Read More about Widening the lens on tobacco taxes and poverty
The 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health begins in Cape Town, South Africa this week (7-9 March 2018), and the first time the conference is being held in Africa. The is significant because South Africa has been a global tobacco control leader in the past twenty years by implementing tobacco control policies well before many other lo... Read More about 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health begins in Cape Town, South Africa this week
The members of the UIC team at Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York, February 2017.
A group of global tax policy experts led by Dr. Frank J. Chaloupka, director of the Health Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Institute for Health Research and Policy, joins six other global health organizations as a co... Read More about UIC Selected As Core Partner of Bloomberg’s $360 Million Global Anti-Tobacco Initiative
Tobacco use poses an unparalleled health and economic burden worldwide. A new study found that the diseases caused by smoking account for US$ 422 billion in health care expenditures annually, representing almost 6% of global spending on health. Smoking causes close to 6 million deaths per year – more than the deaths from HIV/A... Read More about Tobacco Control: Saving Lives and Driving Development
Dr. Chaloupka was interviewed by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Jo Birckmayer on February 23, 2017, in New York City. This was Bloomberg Philanthropies' first Facebook LIVE episode in a new series called The Big Idea. They discussed the basics of tobacco taxation and why it is such an important policy tool to reduce the death and d... Read More about The Big Idea: Tobacco Taxation 101
Tobacco use is the leading cause of non-communicable diseases like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Every year, about six million people worldwide die from tobacco use, with the vast majority of deaths in low- and middle-income countries. We also know that tobacco use costs the world’s economies over US $1.4 trillion annually in h... Read More about 5 Things You Should Know About Tobacco Taxes
Tobacconomics team members played key roles as scientific editors, co-authors, and reviewers of a new report by the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization, which finds that tobacco control measures are highly cost-effective and do not harm economies. However, while progress is now being made in controlling the global... Read More about Tobacco Control Strengthens Economies and Saves Lives
