ArticleTobacco control2024
An overlooked market: loose cigarettes, informal vendors and their implications for tobacco taxation.
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- The African cigarette price data landscape: an overview of gaps and opportunities.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Operant demand for cigarettes varies by unit of purchase: Comparing purchasing of packs and individual cigarettes.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- A Cross-Country Study of Cigarette Affordability and Single-Stick Purchases Using Survey Data From African Countries.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
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- Support for tobacco endgame approaches: Results from a web-based survey of stakeholders from 28 African countries.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- The Extent of Illicit Cigarette Sales in Five Rural Districts of Pakistan: A Cross-sectional Study.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Single cigarette sales contravene tobacco control policies, Brazil.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities in implementing and enforcing India's loose cigarette sales ban: A qualitative stakeholder analysis.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the features of markets for loose cigarettes in several low-income and middle-income countries and their effects on tobacco control policies, particularly taxation.
designAn analysis of survey data targeting people who smoke in two African, one Southeast Asian and two South Asian countries and retailers across 16 African countries to study loose cigarette markets and examine how prices in these markets move relative to the prices for cigarette packs.
resultsMarkets for loose cigarettes are large, and their consumer base tends to differ from the wider population of people who smoke. Loose cigarette prices are on average higher than those of cigarettes bought in packs, and they respond differently to tax increases, at least partially due to a denomination effect.
conclusionsThe features of the loose cigarette markets present a challenge for tobacco control policy, especially tobacco tax policy. One way to overcome this challenge is to aim for large, rather than incremental, tax increases.
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