The health, poverty, and financial consequences of a cigarette price increase among 500 million male smokers in 13 middle income countries: compartmental model study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of a 50% increase in market prices of cigarettes on health, poverty, and financial protection.

Design

Compartmental model study.

Setting

13 middle income countries, totalling two billion men.

Participants

500 million male smokers.

Main outcome measures

Life years gained, averted treatment costs, number of men avoiding catastrophic healthcare expenditures and poverty, and additional tax revenue by income group.

Results

A 50% increase in cigarette prices would lead to about 450 million years of life gained across the 13 countries from smoking cessation, with half of these in China. Across all countries, men in the bottom income group (poorest 20% of the population) would gain 6.7 times more life years than men in the

SUBMITTER: Global Tobacco Economics Consortium 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894369 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature