Rijo M John, Hana Ross
OBJECTIVE: To estimate illicit cigarette consumption in India using a odified and replicable ethod and copare it with estiates generated by the tobacco industry and by a coercial entity. ETHODS: The study eployed a odified approach to cigarette pack analysis suitable for countries with prev...
Gaurang P. Nazar, Nitika Sharma, Aastha Chugh, S M Abdullah et al.
INTRODUCTION: The objective of the review was to study the impact of tobacco taxes or prices on affordability and/or consumption of tobacco products in WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR) countries, overall and by socioeconomic status; and change in consumption of one tobacco product for a given chang...
Rijo M John, Amit Yadav, Dhirendra Narain Sinha
Southeast Asia accounts for nearly 86 per cent of the smokeless tobacco (SLT) consumers in the world. The heterogeneous nature of SLT is a major impediment to using taxation as a tool to regulate SLT. This study was aimed to review issues around fiscal policies on SLT with the objective of providing...
S M Abdullah, Rumana Huque, Linda Bauld, Hana Ross et al.
The illicit tobacco trade undermines the effectiveness of tobacco tax policies; increases the availability of cheap cigarettes, which, in turn, increases tobacco use and tobacco related deaths; and causes huge revenue losses to governments. There is limited evidence on the extent of illicit tobacco ...