𝗠𝗔Ñ𝗔𝗡𝗔: Nueva Publicación del Cadep 🔍 #CigarrillosOcultos

New research findings 🔎 from @CADEP_py, a Tobacconomics think tank partner, highlight the need for #Paraguay 🇵🇾 to work with #Brazil & neighboring countries to ⬇️ #tobacco industry tax evasion & ⬆️ domestic revenues. Learn more: tobacconomics.org/research/tobac…

Our new report on tobacco use among young people in Poland is out. Higher excise taxes and plain packaging as tools to achieve the Tobacco-Free Generation envisioned in EU’s Beating Cancer Plan. Łukasz Balwicki Ministerstwo Zdrowia @Kreftforeningen 🇵🇱👇zdrowie.gov.pl/aktualnosci/do…

Freshly published in open access, with coauthor Rob Branston from Tobacco Control Research Group. Promoting convergence and closing gaps: a blueprint for the revision of the European Union Tobacco Tax Directive tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/…

My new paper in Tobacco Control co-authored with Ángel López Nicolás looking at how the #EU #tobacco tax directive can be revised to promote convergence in tobacco prices between EU countries and between factory made/hand rolled cigarettes. Get the full paper free at: tinyurl.com/ys5bzehh

Is there some one who can explain this? Can you take the EU action plan against cancer seriously? No funding for tobacco control? Tobacco is the cause of 30% of all cancer in the EU. Stella Kyriakides ????

When high inflation is looming, automatic indexing for inflation is a must in specific tax and mixed tax systems

I have a new letter out in Tobacco Control with Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations colleagues and Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦. It uses NielsenIQ data from #Poland to examine trends in tobacco product sales to see if the Japan #htp experience was replicated in Poland. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/… 1/11

Wishing you all a TOPS-notch holiday season & new year!🥳🥳🥳 Join us in 2022 when 🌟Alex Liber 🇺🇦 🌟will deliver a Grand Rounds entitled 'Evaluating the impact of regulatory policies using tobacco sales data'! 12-1 pm ET 1/7/2022 Register here: bit.ly/TOPS-Fall2021

Cigarette Price Increases, Advertising Ban, and Pictorial Warnings as Determinants of Youth Smoking Initiation in Poland Michal Stoklosa Łukasz Balwicki academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…

¡Gracias, Armando!

Meet Beate, a nurse supporting 🇺🇦 refugees in 🇵🇱. She tells us about one story that will stay in her heart forever. World Health Organization (WHO) is providing much-needed support to #Ukraine & supporting neighbouring countries to provide health care for #refugees, most of whom are women & children.

Our recent article in The Lancet Reg Health-Americas on "Comparing taxes as a percentage of sugar-sweetened beverage prices in Latin America and the Caribbean: doi.org/10.1016/j.lana… Coauthors: R. Sandoval Miriam Bad Idea Ai Guillermo Paraje

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 "Using Regulatory Stances to See All the Commercial Determinants of Health" at Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…. It's my first dissertation article, my first contribution to theory, and by far my longest solo scholarly contribution 1/x

The new edition of this fantastic resource on all issues in tobacco control is out

After Poland's menthol cigarette sales ban: no more menthols available in stores and, in the region with largest pre-ban menthol share, a significant decline in overall cigarette sales. Another great piece of research funded by Ministerstwo Zdrowia & @Kreftforeningen from EEA and Norway Grants

Minimum pricing policies are targeted measures that complement excise tax polices. A new report from our WHO/Europe colleagues discusses this policy and its potential in reducing alcohol-related harm. apps.who.int/iris/handle/10…

Japan is adopting an expansionist regulatory stabbed towards the alcohol market. I don't think it's a good idea, but that's what this is. #CDoH onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

On December 5, the World Health Organization will introduce new resources on alcohol taxation. Experts from WHO Member States, IGOs, NGOs, and academia will share their experiences. Register for our webinar: who.int/news-room/even…

Taxes that increase #alcohol prices by 50% would help avert over 21 million deaths over 50 years and generate nearly US$17 trillion in additional revenues for governments. More information: bit.ly/415SFDf