Basic economic gap related to smoking: Reconciling tobacco tax receipts and economic costs of smoking-attributable diseases

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054307" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054307</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054307" target="_blank" >10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054307</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Basic economic gap related to smoking: Reconciling tobacco tax receipts and economic costs of smoking-attributable diseases

Original language description

Background: Tobacco tax rates set by various governments are not based on the idea that tax receipts should cover the costs incurred by smoking. It can be assumed that tobacco tax receipts (TTR) differ from the costs of smoking. The aim is to determine the global basic economic gap (BEG) between TTR and the economic costs of smoking-attributable diseases (ECS). Methods: BEG is described as the difference between the ECS and TTR. A total of 124 countries representing 94% of global tobacco consumption were included in the research by means of the creation of a database, the adjustment of input data and the identification of their intersection. Results: The global BEG reaches US$1438 billion per year. The global ECS are US$1911 billion per year. The global TTR are US$473 billion per year and compensate for only one quarter of the ECS. Within countries with the highest consumption of cigarettes, especially the USA but also Russia and Germany, the proportion of the ECS covered by the TTR is even lower, although private health expenditures have been taken into account. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that tobacco taxes would have to be globally increased by more than four times on average in order to cover the ECS or between two and two-and-a-half times if we take private health expenditures into account. The informational pressure concerning health risks associated with smoking aimed at reducing harmful consumption and improving global health can also be supported with these economic facts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50206 - Finance

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Tobacco Control

ISSN

0964-4563

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

558-561

UT code for WoS article

000497750300014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054533100