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    Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2025

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    Global report on the use of alcohol taxes, 2025

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Raise tobacco taxes and prices for a healthy and prosperous Indonesia

Case study

16 Oct 2020

During 2020–2024, the government of Indonesia is focused on improving the wellbeing of Indonesians by taking advantage of the demographic dividend for allinclusive economic growth. And, recognizing the critical dual causality concept, human capital...

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The Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health

Health Taxes to Save Lives Employing Effective Excise Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages

Report

13 Apr 2019

Executive Summary&nbsp;More than 10 million premature deaths each year – about 16 percent of all deaths in the world – couldbe prevented by reducing consumption of three products: tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages. Without action today, the...

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition: report by the Director-General

Report

25 Mar 2019

CitationWorld Health Assembly, 72 (2019). Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition: report by the Director-General. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/328967

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BMJ

Tobacco control and Healthy China 2030

Article

20 Jul 2018

AbstractBackground The Healthy China 2030 strategy sets ambitious targets for China’s policy-makers, including a decrease in the smoking rate from 27.7% in 2015 to 20% by 2030. China has made progress on tobacco control in recent years, but many ke...

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BMJ

Global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases

Article

01 Jan 2018

AbstractBackground The detrimental impact of smoking on health has been widely documented since the 1960s. Numerous studies have also quantified the economic cost that smoking imposes on society. However, these studies have mostly been in high income...

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International Monetary Fund

Health in a Time of Austerity: When public budgets cannot grow, targeted taxes and subsidies can help improve a population’s well-being

Article

05 Sep 2017

Health in a Time of Austerity: When public budgets cannot grow, targeted taxes and subsidies can help improve a population’s well-being

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: implementation plan (WHA70.19)

Report

07 May 2017

CitationWorld Health Assembly, 70 (2017). Seventieth World Health Assembly: Geneva, 22-31 May 2017: resolutions and decisions, annexes. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/259673

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World Health Organization

Preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018

Strategy document

28 Apr 2017

World Health Assembly, 70 (2017). Preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/275670

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International Monetary Fund

How to Design and Enforce Tobacco Excises?

Article

04 Nov 2016

IntroductionTobacco1 is for several good reasons more heavily taxed than other goods in many countries. From the early days of industrial production of cigarettes in the late nineteenth century until a clear link was estab- lished between tobacco and...

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World Health Organization

Modelling the impact of raising tobacco taxes on public health and finance

Article

12 Feb 2016

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the potential for tobacco tax to contribute to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development by reducing tobacco use, saving lives and generating tax revenues.MethodsA model of the global cigarette market in 2014 – dev...

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National Cancer Institute

The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control

Article

01 Jan 2016

This monograph, a collaboration between the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization, examines the current research and evidence base surrounding the economics of tobacco control—including tobacco use, tobacco growing, manufactur...

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World Health Organization

WHO engagement with Member States on tobacco taxation

Publication

01 Jan 2014

OverviewThe World Health Organization (WHO) has engaged with Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials from a large number of countries around the world to provide technical assistance to Member States on tobacco taxation. The objectives of these engagemen...

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The 3 by 35 Initiative is a global call urging countries to accelerate their implementation of health taxes to protect health, strengthen equity and boost domestic revenues—with decisive action over the next decade.

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