In 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations requiring tobacco companies to add Graphic Warning Labels (GWLs) to cigarette packages. However, tobacco companies challenged these regulations, arguing that the FDA had not yet established the effectiveness of GWLs in reducing smoking prevalence. Eventually,... Read More about The importance of Graphic Warning Labels on cigarette smoking prevalence and consumption
Coinciding with Frank Chaloupka’s presentation today at the 30th Annual UN/ECLAC Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar in Santiago, Chile, Tobacconomics researchers, German Rodriguez Iglesias and Frank Chaloupka, released today a policy brief that investigates the challenges and opportunities for comprehensive tobacco control policies in Latin... Read More about Focus on Latin America: Chaloupka makes the case for tobacco taxation
Tobacconomics tax policy experts today announced new partnership agreements with six international organizations to conduct economic research that will help inform and shape tobacco control policies in 14 countries in Asia, Latin America and South Eastern Europe.
Through this partnership with Tobacconomics policy researchers from the Univ... Read More about Tobacconomics Announces New International Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use
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
