SARS Wars: Health warning – tobacco may be harmful to your democracy
This month nine US politicians wrote to the US Department of Justice demanding that it investigate the London-listed British American Tobacco (BAT) following claims that the […]
World Bank Release: World No Tobacco Day 2017 – tobacco taxation demands increased attention & effort
Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which seeks to highlight the health and additional risks […]
Evidence: Revenues Increase with Increases in Cigarette Taxes
The tobacco industry frequently claims that an increase in tobacco taxes will lead to a fall in consumption of tobacco products (or at least a fall […]
NEW! Introducing our Team Member Blog Series
By Corne van Walbeek Consider the world thirty years ago. Cigarette smoking was regarded as normal, with people smoking on public transport, in shops, in offices, […]
World Bank video release: Tobacco Taxation Win-Win for Public Health and Domestic Resources Mobilization Conference
At the 2017 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, the WBG, in collaboration with WHO organized a high-level event to […]
Blogpost: Putting a spotlight on the economics of tobacco control
By Zunda Chisa The economics of tobacco control is not a very widely known, let alone understood, field on the African continent. The average public […]
TV interview with the Taxation Knowledge Hub’s Hana Ross
The June-July period was was a busy month for our Knowledge Hub with Dr. Hana Ross attending five international events over this period. You can read […]
Tobacco Tax: The most effective least-used tool in public health
By Johanna Dollerson (Communications Officer in the Department of Tobacco Control, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease). You can access the original article by clicking here. Don’t forget […]
Knowledge Hub Members are targeting tobacco harm in Africa and Asia
Article by Helen Swingler. Photograph of Postdoctoral research fellow, Ernest Ngeh Tingum and Professor Corné van Walbeek taken by Robyn Walker. You can access the original […]
Blogpost: The Rationale for Tobacco Excise Tax Beyond Revenue Raising
By Alfred Mukong The industry has in many instances strongly opposed several tobacco regulatory policies, especially the large increase in taxes. Opposition to excise tax is […]