A new paper published by Tobacconomics researchers in collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in the journal PLoS ONE finds that overall state spending on tobacco control has a significant negative impact on tax paid cigarette sales.
Tobacconomics researchers John Tauras, Frank Chaloupka, and Jidong... Read More about Study Finds that Money Spent on Tobacco Control Efforts Decreases Cigarette Sales
In 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations requiring tobacco companies to add Graphic Warning Labels (GWLs) to cigarette packages. However, tobacco companies challenged these regulations, arguing that the FDA had not yet established the effectiveness of GWLs in reducing smoking prevalence. Eventually,... Read More about The importance of Graphic Warning Labels on cigarette smoking prevalence and consumption
Coinciding with Frank Chaloupka’s presentation today at the 30th Annual UN/ECLAC Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar in Santiago, Chile, Tobacconomics researchers, German Rodriguez Iglesias and Frank Chaloupka, released today a policy brief that investigates the challenges and opportunities for comprehensive tobacco control policies in Latin... Read More about Focus on Latin America: Chaloupka makes the case for tobacco taxation
Tobacconomics tax policy experts today announced new partnership agreements with six international organizations to conduct economic research that will help inform and shape tobacco control policies in 14 countries in Asia, Latin America and South Eastern Europe.
Through this partnership with Tobacconomics policy researchers from the Univ... Read More about Tobacconomics Announces New International Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use
Today is International Women’s Day, and discussions at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health are focused on the successes and challenges of tobacco control efforts among women. In recognition of this day, we would like to highlight some of our past research, which focuses on weight control beliefs among women that compromise the eff... Read More about Helping Women Kick the Habit: Weight Control Beliefs as a Deterrent to Cessation
This week, the Tobacconomics group released a new Policy Brief examining the global evidence linking tobacco use to poverty and the difference tobacco taxation can make in disrupting cyclical poverty. This Brief challenges the assumption that tobacco taxes are regressive and the hurt the poor, and instead shows that increasing tobacco tax... Read More about Widening the lens on tobacco taxes and poverty
