Tobacco Taxes

A Win-Win Measure for Fiscal Space and Health

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• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Print ISBN:
  9789290928904
• eBook ISBN:
  9789290928911
• Edition: 1

This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries---the People's Republic of China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. For each of these countries, increasing taxes on cigarettes would result in substantially fewer long-term smokers and a reduction in premature deaths from tobacco-related diseases, while increasing tax revenues. The poorest groups in each country only bear a small part of the extra tax burdens, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Tables and Figure
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• 1 Background
• 2 Methods and Assumptions
• 3 Results
• 4 Discussion
• Appendixes
• References
• Back Cover