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United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs: An opportunity to use fiscal measures to reduce the health and economic impact of NCDs

July 10, 2018   As part of the preparatory process for the upcoming third High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on September 27, 2018, the President of the General Assembly, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), hosted an interactive hearing on July 5th, 2018... Read More about United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs: An opportunity to use fiscal measures to reduce the health and economic impact of NCDs

Study: Indiana's Tobacco Control Efforts Woefully Underfunded

June 05, 2018 This media release was published on June 5th, 2018, and discusses the findings from the report released by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and written by Frank Chaloupka and John Tauras about Indiana's spending on tobacco control efforts. Read More about Study: Indiana's Tobacco Control Efforts Woefully Underfunded

Two More Countries Join Tobacconomics Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use

May 08, 2018 Researchers from Pakistan and Bangladesh have become the newest members of Tobacconomics’ international partners that will conduct economic research to help inform and shape tobacco control policies in the two countries. The new international partners are the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) in Bangladesh, the Pakista... Read More about Two More Countries Join Tobacconomics Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use

Economists, please note: The Bloomberg Summers Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health is Important

May 07, 2018 Recently, former New York mayor and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., Michael Bloomberg, and Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and Chief Economist of the World Bank and currently professor of economics at Harvard University, announced the launch of a new Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health to promote the use of fiscal policy as a tool t... Read More about Economists, please note: The Bloomberg Summers Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health is Important

New Tobacconomics research explores the effect of voluntary health warning messages in magazine ads on the perceived harmfulness of ENDS

April 30, 2018 With the rising popularity of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the United States, the relative and absolute harms of ENDS use have become a subject of heated debate in the public health community. From a continuum of risks perspective, ENDS are substantially less harmful than cigarettes, potentially reducing health risks to... Read More about New Tobacconomics research explores the effect of voluntary health warning messages in magazine ads on the perceived harmfulness of ENDS

Moving from aggregate to individual level affordability of tobacco products: New research from Bangladesh

April 26, 2018 Increases in taxes, which increase the price of tobacco products, are considered to be the most effective tobacco control policy measure. However, as the burden of smoking has shifted from high-income to low- and middle-income countries, evaluating the trends in prices as a nominal anchor for tax policy has become less important since so... Read More about Moving from aggregate to individual level affordability of tobacco products: New research from Bangladesh

Study Finds that Money Spent on Tobacco Control Efforts Decreases Cigarette Sales

April 25, 2018 A new paper published by Tobacconomics researchers in collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in the journal PLoS ONE finds that overall state spending on tobacco control has a significant negative impact on tax paid cigarette sales. Tobacconomics researchers John Tauras, Frank Chaloupka, and Jidong... Read More about Study Finds that Money Spent on Tobacco Control Efforts Decreases Cigarette Sales

The importance of Graphic Warning Labels on cigarette smoking prevalence and consumption

April 05, 2018 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

Focus on Latin America: Chaloupka makes the case for tobacco taxation

March 27, 2018 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 Announces New International Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use

March 09, 2018 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