Cigarette tax increases included in Bangladesh's proposed 2018-19 budget are said to be insufficient to keep the country on track toward its 2040 tobacco-free goal.Read More
The Tobacco Industry of Cambodia is reforming to tackle more effectively the country’s illegal trade.Read More
Imposing excise tax on electronic cigarettes to curb tobacco consumption will work only if e-cigarettes are defined as – or deemed to be – tobacco products.Read More
In Australia, where tobacco prices are astronomically high, the fall in the number of smokers has been tiny. Perhaps it should try nicotine-delivering electronic-cigarettes.Read More
Even if, as seems likely, sin is evenly distributed through society, 'sin taxes' impact the financially poor disproportionately.Read More
A Summit on Harm Reduction held in the Philippines has been told of a stunningly successful support program for smokers wanting to quit by switching to vaping. Read More
Excise taxes on tobacco products are set to rise three times in three years in Nigeria. Anti-tobacco organizations have welcomed the increases but the tobacco industry is concerned. Read More
There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether the prices of cigarettes in Malaysia are going to fall during a period of tax transition.Read More
Although the incidence of smoking has fallen in New Zealand; the present rate of decline is not going to be enough for the government to hit its tobacco-smoke-free target by 2025.Read More
An article in Nicotine Tobacco Research questions the link between tax-induced cigarette price rises and increases in the illegal trade in such products, in five countries of Latin America.Read More
