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
Communities with less education and lower per capita income are less likely to have laws that completely prohibit smoking in public places, according to a study published online in the American Journal of Public Health that examined community level disparities in smoke-free laws across 10 states.
“There are socioeconomic disparit... Read More about Researchers Uncover Disparities in Smoke-Free Law Coverage
The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), founded in 2002, systematically evaluates key policies of the WHO FCTC in 22 countries, containing more than 50% of the world’s population, 60% of the world’s smokers and 70% of the world’s tobacco users.
In this podcast Corne Van Walbeek, guest... Read More about Podcast: The Economics of Tobacco Control (Part 2)
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy are authors on several papers published in a special supplement in the July issue of Tobacco Control that discusses finding from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project. The ITC Project, directed by Geoffrey Fong, prof... Read More about Tobacconomics in New Tobacco Control Supplement: The Economics of Tobacco Control (Part 2)
The way that cigarettes are taxed in different countries can lead to prices that either vary widely from brand to brand, providing opportunities for smokers to switch to cheaper brands in response to boosts in cigarette taxes, or fall within a relatively limited range, leaving fewer money-saving options to turn to when taxes are hiked, re... Read More about Fixed Cigarette Taxes Leave Smokers Less Wiggle Room
Women who believe smoking helps them manage their weight are less likely to try quitting in response to anti-smoking policies than other female smokers in the U.S.
The study, published online in the journal Tobacco Control, is the first to find that smokers who are concerned about their weight are less swayed by anti-smoking policies  â€... Read More about Women Smokers Concerned about Weight Are Less Likely to Try to Quit
Tobacconomics director Dr. Frank J. Chaloupka will be representing our work in the following sessions at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from March 17–21. (Click on the session title for more details.)
Tuesday, 17 March, 14:00–18:00 - Session 00378
#13. Tobacco Taxes (worksho... Read More about Tobacconomics at WCTOH 2015
