Presentations

31 May 2024:  Developing Effective Tobacco Taxation Policies to Safeguard Youth from Tobacco

A Zoom webinar held on World No Tobacco Day, hosted the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), with the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) and Cancer Research UK.

1. Modeling impact of change in excise tax and country case studies Presented by Anne-Marie Perucic (Health Taxes Unit, Health  Promotion Department at the WHO).

2 November 2023: The Role of Excise Taxation in Reducing Tobacco Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: 

An online research dissemination workshop on "Evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey & Global Youth Tobacco Survey"

1. Cigarette Prices and Smoking Among Adults in Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries Presented by Samantha Filby
   • Also available in French: Prix des cigarettes et tabagisme chez les adultes dans huit pays d’Afrique subsaharienne
2. Cigarette Prices and Smoking Among Youth in 16 African Countries Presented by Corné Van Walbeek
   • Also available in French: Prix des cigarettes et tabagisme chez les jeunes dans 16 pays africains
3. Cigarette excise tax structure and cigarette prices in nine sub-Saharan African countries Presented by Liping Pan
   • Also available in French: Structure des droits d'accise sur les cigarettes et prix des cigarettes dans neuf pays d'Afrique subsaharienne
4. A cross-country study of cigarette prices, affordability and smoking outcomes using survey data from sub-Saharan African countries Presented by Samantha Filby
   • Also available in French: Étude transnationale des prix des cigarettes, de leur accessibilité financière et des conséquences du tabagisme à l'aide de données d'enquête provenant de pays d'Afrique subsaharienne

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. 

8-12 July 2019: Public Economics Capacity Building Programme Winter School

Corné van Walbeek, Sam Filby, and Laura Rossouw attended and taught at the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC – an agency of National Treasury) Public Economics Capacity Building Programme Winter School. They contributed to the “Taxes, user charges and behavioural change” stream, giving presentations on sugar, tobacco, and alcohol tax policies in South Africa and globally:

• Sugar Tax: Lessons from International Experience for Developing Countries by Corné van Walbeek
• Designing tobacco and alcohol taxes: International experience by Samantha Filby

2019: Illicit Trade presentations:

• Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products In Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Hana Ross - July 16, 2019
• The Illicit Cigarette Market in Georgia; Hana Ross - September 17, 2019
• Do Higher Tobacco Taxes Lead to Illicit Cigarettes Trade? Hana Ross - 19 September, 2019
• Consumption of legal and illegal cigarettes in The Gambia; Hana Ross - 2019

27 May 2015: SALDRU Seminar

Corné van Walbeek, Evan Blecher, Hana Ross and Nicole Vellios presented "About the Economics of Tobacco Control Project" as part of a SALDRU presentation.

2012: 15^th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Singapore

• Effect of increasing cigarette prices on smoking patterns across the income spectrum, some evidence from South Africa
• Excise tax increases, cigarette consumption and government revenue: A win-win-win situation in South Africa
• Non-price demand reduction measures
• The illicit trade in cigarettes and excise revenue data

2012: World Bank/SADC Conference, Gaborone

South African experience with tobacco taxation: Lessons learned and relevance for SADC