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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 linkage between tax burden and illicit trade of excisable products: The example of tobacco

Cooper A & Witt D, World Customs Journal: 2014      Download [...]

 Taxes, prices and illicit trade: The need for sound evidence

Chaloupka FJ, Tobacco Control: 2014      Download [...]

What is known about tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax? A systematic review of empirical studies

Smith KE, Savell E, Gilmore AB, Tobacco Control: 2012      Download [...]

Tobacco litter costs and public policy: a framework and methodology for considering the use of fees to offset abatement costs.

Schneider JE, Peterson NA, Kiss N, et al, Tobacco Control: 2008     Download [...]