The potential distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Ethiopia: Findings from a modeling study.

ABSTRACT: Ethiopia raised taxes on tobacco products in early 2020, increasing the overall price of the typical pack of cigarettes by about 67%. We quantify the potential impacts of Ethiopia's tobacco tax hike on various outcomes-life years, tax revenues, cigarette expenditures and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). Using parameters like price elasticity of demand for cigarettes and smoking prevalence in Ethiopia from the existing literature and secondary data sources, we model the potential implications of the reform at the population level and for different wealth quintiles. We focus only on men since a small proportion of Ethiopian women smoke. Results indicate that Ethiopia's tax hike could induce a significant proportion of current smokers to quit smoking and thereby save almost eight milli

SUBMITTER: Chakrabarti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature