Tobacconomics Welcomes New Partners, Expands Research With Continuing Partners

July 10, 2019 Tobacconomics, a grant-funded research initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), welcomes five new research partners to build the evidence base for effective tobacco tax policies in low- and middle-income countries. The new partners include: the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) in Jak... Read More

Podcast: Dr. Frank Chaloupka on the Economics of Tobacco Taxes

April 23, 2019 This is an episode in the series, 'Upstream Public Health,' from the Thinking Upstream podcast. In this episode, Frank Chaloupka discusses the economics of tobacco taxes. Listen to the entire podcast here. Read More

Research Makes the Case for Increased Tobacco Taxes in Pakistan and Southeastern Europe

March 07, 2019 New research from Pakistan- and Southeastern Europe-based think tanks find that tobacco taxation increases can reduce tobacco consumption and at the same time increase government revenues in the regions. In Pakistan, research results from the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) and the Social Policy and Development Centre... Read More

Quarterly Update (March 2019)

March 04, 2019 Join us for a webinar on the new Tobacconomics Toolkit:"Using Household Expenditure Surveys for Research in the Economics of Tobacco Control"Wednesday, March 20th @ 8:00 a.m. CST Register here   Speakers: Violeta Vulovic, PhD and Rijo John, PhD For more information, questions, or help with re... Read More

From the Tobacconomics Team to you and yours, Season’s Greetings, 2018!

December 19, 2018 Season’s Greetings From the Tobacconomics Team! As we look back on 2018 and take stock of our accomplishments, we are thankful for our partnerships with twenty-two think tanks in seventeen countries worldwide. In 2019, we look forward... Read More

Study: Indiana's Tobacco Control Efforts Woefully Underfunded

June 05, 2018 This media release was published on June 5th, 2018, and discusses the findings from the report released by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and written by Frank Chaloupka and John Tauras about Indiana's spending on tobacco control efforts. Read More

Two More Countries Join Tobacconomics Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use

May 08, 2018 Researchers from Pakistan and Bangladesh have become the newest members of Tobacconomics’ international partners that will conduct economic research to help inform and shape tobacco control policies in the two countries. The new international partners are the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) in Bangladesh, the Pakista... Read More

Tobacconomics Announces New International Partnerships to Reduce Global Tobacco Use

March 09, 2018 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

UIC Selected As Core Partner of Bloomberg’s $360 Million Global Anti-Tobacco Initiative

March 08, 2017 The members of the UIC team at Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York, February 2017. A group of global tax policy experts led by Dr. Frank J. Chaloupka, director of the Health Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Institute for Health Research and Policy, joins six other global health organizations as a co... Read More

Tobacco Control: Saving Lives and Driving Development

February 27, 2017 Tobacco use poses an unparalleled health and economic burden worldwide. A new study found that the diseases caused by smoking account for US$ 422 billion in health care expenditures annually, representing almost 6% of global spending on health. Smoking causes close to 6 million deaths per year – more than the deaths from HIV/A... Read More