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Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes
During the past decade progress has been made from a public health perspective in advancing tobacco taxation policies in the World Health Organization’s Region of the Americas, and there are important lessons to be learned from this experience. This report aims to systematize and distill the key les...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9621300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339943 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.188 |
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author | Sandoval, Rosa Carolina Malik, Sehr Roche, Maxime Belausteguigoitia, Itziar Morales-Zamora, Gilberto |
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description | During the past decade progress has been made from a public health perspective in advancing tobacco taxation policies in the World Health Organization’s Region of the Americas, and there are important lessons to be learned from this experience. This report aims to systematize and distill the key lessons learned, both by documenting progress and paving the way toward a comprehensive approach to taxing other health-harming products, particularly those considered to be drivers of the noncommunicable disease epidemic, such as alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages. A thorough review of publications and institutional documents was undertaken and discussions were held with experts about the experiences of the past decade. Broadly, the lessons can be characterized according to the main mechanisms that have fostered progress. These are the robust, consistent and standardized monitoring of tobacco taxes that has enabled comparisons between countries and across time; the setting of tax policy within a framework of multisectoral policy coherence; and the development of guidelines and the generation of independent evidence to support tobacco taxes and tackle harmful industry interference. Currently, progress in these areas is lagging for taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages. Applying the lessons learned from the extensive experience with tobacco taxation can help advance progress in taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages and capture the potential synergies to be gained from building a comprehensive approach. Although more work is needed in developing and implementing taxation policies across all three products, the findings from this report can assist in strengthening their public health objectives to tackle noncommunicable diseases and improve population health. |
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spelling | pubmed-96213002022-11-04 Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes Sandoval, Rosa Carolina Malik, Sehr Roche, Maxime Belausteguigoitia, Itziar Morales-Zamora, Gilberto Rev Panam Salud Publica Special Report During the past decade progress has been made from a public health perspective in advancing tobacco taxation policies in the World Health Organization’s Region of the Americas, and there are important lessons to be learned from this experience. This report aims to systematize and distill the key lessons learned, both by documenting progress and paving the way toward a comprehensive approach to taxing other health-harming products, particularly those considered to be drivers of the noncommunicable disease epidemic, such as alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages. A thorough review of publications and institutional documents was undertaken and discussions were held with experts about the experiences of the past decade. Broadly, the lessons can be characterized according to the main mechanisms that have fostered progress. These are the robust, consistent and standardized monitoring of tobacco taxes that has enabled comparisons between countries and across time; the setting of tax policy within a framework of multisectoral policy coherence; and the development of guidelines and the generation of independent evidence to support tobacco taxes and tackle harmful industry interference. Currently, progress in these areas is lagging for taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages. Applying the lessons learned from the extensive experience with tobacco taxation can help advance progress in taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages and capture the potential synergies to be gained from building a comprehensive approach. Although more work is needed in developing and implementing taxation policies across all three products, the findings from this report can assist in strengthening their public health objectives to tackle noncommunicable diseases and improve population health. Organización Panamericana de la Salud 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9621300/ /pubmed/36339943 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.188 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. No modifications or commercial use of this article are permitted. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that PAHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the PAHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article’s original URL. Open access logo and text by PLoS, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. |
spellingShingle | Special Report Sandoval, Rosa Carolina Malik, Sehr Roche, Maxime Belausteguigoitia, Itziar Morales-Zamora, Gilberto Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title | Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title_full | Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title_fullStr | Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title_short | Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes |
title_sort | lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the americas and implications for other health taxes |
topic | Special Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9621300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339943 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.188 |
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