Tobacco industry response to tobacco tax hikes: The case of Montenegro

October 22, 2020 Authors: Konstantin KrasovskyTobacco Prevention and Cessation AbstractBackground:Tobacco taxation is an effective policy to decrease tobacco consumption and increase revenue. In July 2017, Montenegro adopted an ambitious plan of tobacco excise increases (from [...]

Strategic Investment of Tobacco Tax Revenue (2020)

Article 6 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and its guidelines for implementation recommend that countries dedicate revenue to fund tobacco control and other health promotion activities. In addition, Article 26 of [...]

Cigarette Tax Avoidance and Evasion: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project (2013)

Authors: G Emmanuel Guindon et al. Abstract Background: Decades of research have produced overwhelming evidence that tobacco taxes reduce tobacco use and increase government tax revenue. The magnitude and effectiveness of taxes in reducing tobacco use [...]

Mobilizing Public Opinion for the Tobacco Industry: The Consumer Tax Alliance and Excise Taxes (2009)

Authors: Richard Campbell and Edith Balbach Abstract Background: Tobacco industry funding was instrumental in creating and financing the Consumer Tax Alliance in 1989 as an ostensibly organization that relied upon extensive media outreach to build opposition to [...]

Industry Responses to the Tobacco Excise Tax Increases in South Africa (2006)

Author: Corné van Walbeek Abstract The cigarette manufacturing market in South Africa is highly concentrated, with one company controlling more than 90 per cent of the market. In this paper the retail price of cigarettes [...]

Tobacco Institute Lobbying at the State and Local Levels of Government in the 1990s (2002)

Authors: Christopher P Morley et al. Abstract Objective: To describe variation in Tobacco Institute (TI) lobbying expenditures across states and test whether these expenditures vary in relationship to measures of tobacco control activity at the state [...]

“A Whole ’Nother Smoke” or a Cigarette in Disguise: How RJ Reynolds Reframed the Image of Little Cigars (2007)

Authors: Cristine Delnevo and Mary Hrywna Abstract Present-day consumption of little cigars rivals that of the early 1970s when sales of little cigars boomed. This boom was largely attributed to RJ Reynolds, and documents reveal [...]

Tax, Price and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from the Tobacco Documents and Implications for Tobacco Company Marketing Strategies (2002)

Authors: Frank Chaloupka et al. Abstract Objective: To examine tobacco company documents to determine what the companies knew about the impact of cigarette prices on smoking among youth, young adults, and adults, and to evaluate [...]

Building Alliances in Unlikely Places: Progressive Allies and the Tobacco Institute’s Coalition Strategy on Cigarette Excise Taxes (2009)

Authors: Richard B Campbell and Edith D Balbach Abstract The tobacco industry often utilizes third parties to advance its policy agenda. One such utilization occurred when the industry identified organized labor and progressive groups as [...]

Union Women, the Tobacco Industry, and Excise Taxes: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences (2009)

Authors: Edith Balbach and Richard Campbell Abstract Between 1987 and 1997, the tobacco industry used the issue of cigarette excise tax increases to create a political partnership with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), a [...]

The Failure of the UK to Tax Adequately Tobacco Company Profits (2020)

Authors: J Robert Branston and Anna B Gilmore Abstract Background: A key driver of the global tobacco epidemic is the massive profit earned from manufacturing tobacco products despite high levels of product taxation. Two of the [...]

Tobacco Firm BAT ‘Costs Developing Countries $700m in Tax’

April 30, 2019 Campaigners say company uses ‘financial manoeuvring’ to shift profits to tax havens British American Tobacco has been accused of depriving developing countries of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax by using “financial [...]

Latest tax return shed light on the Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-free World (2019)

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (‘the Foundation’) was set up in September 2017, ostensibly as a scientific organisation aiming to “accelerate an end to smoking”. It describes itself as an independent foundation, yet was [...]

Tobacco Tax and the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in New Zealand (2015)

Authors: Ali Ajmal and Veng Ian U Abstract Objectives: To estimate the size of illegal tobacco trade and consumption and assess the impact of tobacco tax on the illicit tobacco market in New Zealand (NZ). [...]

Change in Tobacco Excise Policy in Bulgaria: The Role of Tobacco Industry Lobbying and Smuggling (2014)

Authors: Valeria Skafida et al. Abstract Objectives: To examine how transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) tried to penetrate the Bulgarian cigarette market and influence tobacco excise tax policy after the fall of communism and during Bulgaria’s [...]

 Taxes, Prices and Illicit Trade: The Need for Sound Evidence (2014)

Author: Frank J Chaloupka Extensive research from around the world has documented the effectiveness of tobacco tax and price increases in reducing tobacco use by promoting cessation among current users, deterring young people from taking [...]

What is Known about Tobacco Industry Efforts to Influence Tobacco Tax? A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies (2013)

Authors: Katherine Smith, Emily Savell, and Anna Gilmore Abstract Objective: To systematically review studies of tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax policies. Methods: Searches were conducted between 1 October 2009 and 31 March 2010 in 14 [...]

Tobacco Industry Manipulation of Tobacco Excise and Tobacco Advertising Policies in the Czech Republic: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents (2012)

Authors: Risako Shiran et al. Abstract Background: The Czech Republic has one of the poorest tobacco control records in Europe. This paper examines transnational tobacco companies’ (TTCs’) efforts to influence policy there, paying particular attention to [...]

 The Linkage Between Tax Burden and Illicit Trade of Excisable products: The Example of Tobacco (2012)

Authors: Adrian Cooper and Daniel Witt Abstract Illicit trade in tobacco is now a global phenomenon. Experience across both advanced and developing economies demonstrates that the key economic drivers influencing the illicit tobacco trade are excessive [...]

Tobacco Litter Costs and Public Policy: A Framework and Methodology for Considering the Use of Fees to Offset Abatement Costs (2011)

Authors: John E Schneider et al. Abstract Objectives: Growing concern over the costs, environmental impact and safety of tobacco product litter (TPL) has prompted states and cities to undertake a variety of policy initiatives, of [...]

Transnational Tobacco Company Influence on Tax Policy During Privatization of a State Monopoly: British American Tobacco and Uzbekistan (2007)

Authors: Anna Gilmore et al. Abstract Objectives: The International Monetary Fund encourages privatization of state-owned tobacco industries. Privatization tends to lower cigarette prices, which encourages consumption. This could be countered with effective tax policies. We [...]

Moving East: How the Transnational Tobacco Industry Gained Entry to the Emerging Markets of the Former Soviet Union part II: An overview of Priorities and Tactics Used to Establish a Manufacturing Presence (2004)

Authors: Anna Gilmore and Martin McKee Abstract Objectives: To explore how British American Tobacco (BAT), having established cigarette imports, responded to the opportunities for investment in cigarette manufacturing in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Design: Analysis of [...]

Tobacco Excise Taxation in South Africa (2003)

Author: Corné van Walbeek Introduction The past ten years have witnessed a major turnabout in government policy on tobacco control in South Africa. Within a relatively short time, government policy has changed from complete apathy [...]

The Honourable Dr Gary Johns

Letter of Dr. Gary Johns to SEATCA on International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) issue. Read more: Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) [...]