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Taxes on tobacco – the least expensive, least implemented, and most effective tool in the fight to reduce the use of this deadly product – should not be left unimplemented.
By raising the cost of tobacco, we have the potential to reverse the epidemic, prevent widespread illness and suffering, and save millions of lives every year.
Over the last decade, global soft-drink sales have doubled; per capita alcohol consumption has risen; and tobacco use has increased.
The main risk factors for developing these conditions – smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, being overweight, and insufficient physical exercise – reflect deeply ingrained unhealthy behaviors.
The over-consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and energy-rich processed foods are often framed as lifestyle “choices.”
And while the World Health Organization skimps by on $2 billion a year, the tobacco industry rakes in $35 billion in annual profits.
Its exports of goods comprise mainly fruits, olive oil, raw cotton, tobacco, and some refined petroleum products.
To grasp the rationale for a more broad-based approach to financial regulation, consider three other regulated industries: drugs, tobacco, and firearms.
We restrict access to most drugs, impose heavy taxes and marketing constraints on tobacco, and control gun circulation and ownership.
As Asian and African markets open up, similar social changes may follow as alcohol and tobacco advertisers seek new customers.
Europe’s Snuff JusticeROME – Late last month, Brussels was rocked by the surprise resignation of European Union Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli over his alleged involvement in a tobacco bribery scandal.
The directive would have imposed stricter controls on the sale of tobacco products in Europe, while preserving the existing ban on the sale of snus, a kind of chewing tobacco.
While the directive would safeguard EU citizens’ health, it would also deprive the tobacco industry of billions of dollars in profits.
And, after a four-month investigation, OLAF, the EU’s anti-corruption watchdog, concluded on the basis of “unambiguous circumstantial evidence” that Dalli was aware that a Maltese businessman with links to him had demanded a €60 million ($78 million) bribe from the tobacco company Swedish Match to lift the ban on snus.
Whatever happened, the immediate effect has been to stall implementation of the Tobacco Products Directive, giving tobacco producers more time to try to influence it.
Anti-smoking lobbies consider the affair – which helps powerful tobacco lobbies – a slap in the face of European consumers.
California’s First 5 Commission (which is funded by a tobacco tax) has galvanized pediatricians – a group that parents are predisposed to trust – to help parents understand the importance of engaging with their children in ways that advance their health and cognitive development.
These deaths are largely driven by a few risky behaviors: tobacco smoking (second in the global ranking of risk factors), alcohol use (ranked third), obesity and poor nutrition (ranked sixth and seventh, respectively), and physical inactivity (ranked tenth).
They gave a strong recommendation to include “interventions to reduce the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.”
An independent committee of experts convened by the World Health Organization found that the tobacco industry used creative, secretive, and effective tactics to divert the WHO’s focus from NCDs for years.
One controversial law that did go ahead recently – and that indicates how willing the government is to take tough measures that it believes will maximize overall happiness – is a ban on the sale of tobacco.
Bhutanese may bring into the country small quantities of cigarettes or tobacco from India for their own consumption, but not for resale – and they must carry the import-tax receipt with them any time they smoke in public.
By omitting alcohol, tobacco, petroleum products, and electricity – which together account for more than a quarter of all tax receipts – the government is significantly diluting the GST’s potential impact on the national economy.
The agreement gives pharmaceutical firms, tobacco companies, and other corporations substantially less than they had asked for – so much so that US Senator Orrin Hatch and some other Republicans now threaten to oppose ratification.
But, in the end, the tobacco companies did not get what they had been demanding;Australia is now free to ban brand-name logos on cigarette packs.
Increased life expectancy is causing the share of elderly people to grow, while economic development and urbanization reduce physical activity and increase consumption of processed food, alcohol, and tobacco.
Several sectors have propagandized their products to the public, systematically suppressing concerns about real harms; the petroleum, tobacco, and opioid industries immediately come to mind.
Using the same tricks as tobacco companies – and in some cases, the same people – they covered up the evidence and doubled down.
Is it appropriate to invest in tobacco companies?
Even in the 15 years that we have owned this former tobacco farm, further progress has left its mark.
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