Economic Evaluation of Five Tobacco Control Policies Across Seven European Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Economic evaluations of tobacco control policies targeting adolescents are scarce. Few take into account real-world, large-scale implementation costs; few compare cost-effectiveness of different policies across different countries. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of five tobacco control policies (nonschool bans, including bans on sales to minors, bans on smoking in public places, bans on advertising at points-of-sale, school smoke-free bans, and school education programs), implemented in 2016 in Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Portugal.

Methods

Cost-effectiveness estimates were calculated per country and per policy, from the State perspective. Costs were collected by combining quantitative questionnaires with semi-structured in

SUBMITTER: Leao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291799 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature