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Review
. 2000 Aug 5;321(7257):358-61.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.358.

The economics of global tobacco control

P Jha  1 , F J Chaloupka
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Review

The economics of global tobacco control

P Jha et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Cumulative numbers of smoking related deaths according to three scenarios. Only current smokers quitting will substantially reduce the number of deaths in the next 50 years. Adapted from Peto and Lopez1
Figure 2
Figure 2
Average cigarette price, tax, and percentage of tax share per pack by countries' income for 1996. If tax is to account for four fifths of the retail price, this requires prices to be increased by four times the manufacturer's (untaxed) price per pack. Thus, if the manufacturer's price is $0.50 then the tax rate would be $2 and the retail price $2.50. Depending on retail factors, an increase of this order would raise the population weighted retail price by 80-100% in low income and middle income countries
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