ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2019
A decade of cigarette taxation in Bangladesh: lessons learnt for tobacco control.
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- Comparing taxes as a percentage of sugar-sweetened beverage prices in Latin America and the Caribbean.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
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- Revisiting the association between worldwide implementation of the MPOWER package and smoking prevalence, 2008-2017.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Price, Income, and Affordability as the Determinants of Tobacco Consumption: A Practitioner's Guide to Tobacco Taxation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Impact of tobacco price and taxation on affordability and consumption of tobacco products in the South-East Asia Region: A systematic review.Tobacco induced diseases · 2021Review
- Policy priorities for strengthening smokeless tobacco control in Bangladesh: A mixed-methods analysis.Tobacco induced diseases · 2021Article
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Bangladesh has achieved a high share of tax in the price of cigarettes (greater than the 75% benchmark), but has not achieved the expected health benefits from reduction in cigarette consumption. In this paper we explore why cigarette taxation has not succeeded in reducing cigarette smoking in Bangladesh. Using government records over 2006-2017, we link trends in tax-paid cigarette sales to cigarette excise tax structure and changes in cigarette taxes and prices. We analysed data on smoking prevalence from Bangladesh Global Adult Tobacco Surveys to study consumption of different tobacco products in 2009 and 2017. Drawing on annual reports from tobacco manufacturers and other literature, we examine demand- and supply-side factors in the cigarette market. In addition to a growing affordability of cigarettes, three factors appear to have undermined the effectiveness of tax and price increases in reducing cigarette consumption in Bangladesh. First, the multitiered excise tax structure widened the price differential between brands and incentivized downward substitution by smokers from higher-price to lower-price cigarettes. Second, income growth and shifting preferences of smokers for better quality products encouraged upward substitution from hand-rolled local cigarettes (
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