Cigarette Tax Scorecard (4th Edition)

The Economics for Health Cigarette Tax Scorecard (4th edition) was written by Jeffrey Drope, Saw Min Thu Oo, Margaret Dorokhina, Carlos Guerrero, Germán Rodriguez-Iglesias, Ana Mugosa, Anita Bontu, Sehr Malik, Tatiana Villacres, and Frank Chaloupka. The 4th edition of the Scorecard assesses the performance of cigarette tax policies in 171 countries. It uses 2024 data from the WHO Global Tobacco Control Reports to score countries on a five-point scale, thus providing policy makers with an actionable assessment. There are four scoring components used: the cigarette price, changes in affordability, the tax share of the price, and the tax structure used. Each country receives a score for each component, in addition to an overall score. The Scorecard shows that most government are still not implementing best practices in cigarette tax policies, with limited progress since the third edition. These results highlight the need for governments to commit to reducing smoking and raising tax revenues using the most effective tobacco control strategy: tobacco taxes.

Access the entire Data set with all of the country scores here.