2024:

21 August 2024: How can alcohol excise taxation be improved in South Africa? By Nicole Vellios, Mxolisi Zondi and Corné van Walbeek.

Funding for this research was provided by RESET Alcohol (led by Vital Strategies and funded by Open Philanthropy). RESET is a consortium with Johns Hopkins University (Tobacconomics team), Movendi International, the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance, NCD Alliance, and the World Health Organization.

2023: Evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey & Global Youth Tobacco Survey

These research products were created through a research partnership funded by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use through the CDC Foundation with a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. 

Back to Basics

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Tobacco Taxation

Vellios, N. & van Walbeek, C. 2018. The Determinants of regular smoking onset in South Africa using duration analysis. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief 1 Feb 2018.

Ross, H., Tesche, J. & Vellios, N. 2017. Undermining government tax policies: Common legal strategies employed by the tobacco industry in response to tobacco tax increases. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief 1 Feb 2018.

Blecher, E., Ross, H., & Stoklosa, M. 2014. Lessons learned from cigarette tax harmonization in the European Union. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Ross, H., Kostova D., Stoklosa, M & Leon, M. 2014. The Impact of Cigarette Excise Taxes on Smoking Cessation Rates From 1994 to 2010 in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Illicit trade

Ross, H. and Blecher, E. 2019. Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Need Not Hinder Tobacco Tax Policy Reforms and Increases. Tobacconomics Policy Brief. Chicago, IL: Tobacconomics, Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ross, H. 2017. Track and Trace in Kenya: Evaluating various measures to control illicit cigarette trade. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Ross, H., Vellios, N., Clegg Smith, K., Ferguson, J. &  Cohen, J. 2018. “Cheap White” Cigarettes. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief 1 Feb 2018.

Ross, H. et al. 2015. Approaches for Controlling Illicit Tobacco Trade — Nine Countries and the European Union. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Ross. H. 2015. Asia-11 report: More Myth than Fact. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Ross, H. 2015. Measures to Control Illicit Tobacco Trade. Policy Brief prepared for ETCP|SALDRU|UCT and Tobacconomics, Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Other issues in tobacco control

Kruger, L., Van Walbeek, C. & Vellios, N. 2016. Waterpipe and cigarette smoking in SA. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Movsisyan, N.K. et al. 2016. Smoking patterns in Central Europe: Education as a determinant factor of smoking and quitting. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.

Stoklosa, M. & Ross, H. 2014. Tobacco control funding: Assessing TBC for LMICs in a time of economic hardship. ETCP|SALDRU|UCT Policy Brief.