An overlooked market: loose cigarettes, informal vendors and their implications for tobacco taxation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To 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.

Design

An 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.

Results

Markets 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 deno

SUBMITTER: Gallien M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503073 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature