Gambia: GRA Chief Calls for Higher Tobacco Taxes to Curb Smoking & Disease

Gambia: GRA Chief Calls for Higher Tobacco Taxes to Curb Smoking & Disease

The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) has called for closer cooperation between tax and health authorities to use tobacco taxation as a tool to reduce smoking and prevent non-communicable diseases.

GRA boss: Tobacco tax is about health, not just revenue

Commissioner General of the Gambia Revenue Authority, Yankuba Darboe, says tobacco taxation should not be measured by revenue alone, but by its impact on public health. He was speaking at the convergence of the Association of Public and Environmental Health Officers – The Gambia (APEHOG) under the theme "Non-Communicable Diseases and Tobacco Taxation: Aligning Fiscal Policy with Public Health". Darboe said taxation is often seen simply as revenu…

CG Darboe says taxes on tobacco design to save lives

GRA Commissioner General Yankuba Darboe has declared that tobacco taxation must be judged not by how much revenue it generates, but by how many lives it saves. Delivering a keynote address at the convergence of the Association of Public & Environmental Health Officers – The Gambia (APEHOG) on the theme “Non-Communicable Diseases and Tobacco Taxation: Aligning Fiscal Policy with Public Health,” Darboe said taxation is more than revenue collection…