We are excited to announce that the Emerging Science in State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Practice forum will be held on May 4, 2016, in Washington, D.C. This forum, hosted by RTI International and the State and Community Tobacco Control (SCTC) research initiative, aims to stimulate dialogue among p... Read More about Register Now! Forum on Emerging Science in Tobacco Control
Presentations at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting from March 2–5, 2016, in Chicago, IL
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
6:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. Chicago Ballroom 6 (Level 4)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Optimizing the Public Health Impact of Tobacco Taxes – Frank J. Chaloupka
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Our director, Frank J. Chaloupka, was ranked among “some of the world’s most influential scientific minds” included on the 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list.
Health economist Frank Chaloupka is among 3,000 researchers worldwide “ranking among the top 1 percent most cited for their subjec... Read More about Dr. Chaloupka Recognized As One of the World's Most Influential Researchers
Presentations at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting
October 31 – November 4, 2015 | Chicago, IL
Sunday, November 1, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
“Impact of Other Tobacco Product (OTP) Tax Structure on Retail OTP Prices: Evidence from Commercial Store Scanner Data” — Jidong Huang, Frank J. Chaloupka, Jam... Read More about Come See Us at APHA in Chicago
In Perth for the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference 2015, Dr. Chaloupka was interviewed on Periscope by Marie McInerney of Croakey News. In the interview, they discuss current issues in the economics of tobacco control, including:
fallacies of economic arguments made by tobacco companies
examples of countries that have excelled... Read More about Tobacco Control Is Smart Economics (Amongst Other Things)
New Zealand has been praised for its history of aggressive tobacco taxation, with a 10% increase in taxes on tobacco products every year since 2010 that has resulted in an overall average drop in cigarette sales of 23%. In light of the government's recent decision not to extend tobacco tax increases beyond 2016, Dr. Chaloupka was in New... Read More about Dr. Chaloupka on Tobacco Taxes in New Zealand
Dr. Frank Chaloupka is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an internationally respected scientist in the area of tobacco control.
He is the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on the Economics of Tobacco Control, and also a research associate at the Natio... Read More about Do Taxes Make You Healthier?
Amidst calls for the government of New Zealand to consider its next move on smoke-free policies, Dr. Chaloupka met with economics journalist Nadine Chalmers-Ross on New Zealand's national television broadcaster TVNZ. They discuss tobacco taxation, its impact on low-income populations, and other potential strategies to reduce smoking... Read More about Absolutely No Question Raising Tax on Tobacco Reduces Smoking
It is time to rethink conventional wisdom on tobacco taxation, say Tobacconomics researchers in a new Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine. For decades now, the evidence-based best practice has been to tax all tobacco products at similar levels since they all harm health. The rapid evolution of the nicotine-delivery prod... Read More about Differential Taxes for Differential Risks
