Lower taxes on heated tobacco products are subsidizing tobacco industry, research reveals

Lower taxes on heated tobacco products are subsidizing tobacco industry, research reveals

Governments which impose lower taxes on heated tobacco products in the hope of encouraging smokers away from conventional cigarettes are effectively subsidizing the tobacco industry, missing out on much-needed tax revenues and hampering their own public health initiatives, new research from the University of Bath shows. The findings appear in the BMJ.

Punishing Progress: The EU Seems Set to Tax Away Its Best Chance to End Smoking?

As smoking continues to claim over 700,000 lives each year in the European Union, public health experts and tobacco harm reduction (THR) advocates have long urged lawmakers to focus on practical, evidence-based solutions. But despite progress in some regions, the European Commission (EC) appears poised to take a step backward. According to Clearing the Air, […]

The National Committee for Tobacco Prevention (CNPT) on Wednesday called on the government to act "immediately" to stop smoking, raise the price of tobacco through a "valent and equitable" tax reform and approve neutral packaging for tobacco and related products.

The Alliance Against Tobacco warns this Wednesday about the "over-representation of cigarettes on screen", whether in films, series or music clips. The association recalls that this "glamourization" of tobacco is not annoyed.

Confronting the Tobacco Industry’s War against Global Health

Despite this grim statistic, the battle to eradicate tobacco use continues to face formidable resistance—not from users, but from th

Tobacco revenue can increase by bringing illicit trade into tax net

KARACHI: The country’s annual revenue from the tobacco industry could more than double from the current Rs 270...