Gabon : Assessment of the Impact of Tobacco Excise Tax Increases on Price, Consumption and Tax Revenue over 2018-2021
This country report assesses the impact of tobacco tax policy increases on prices, consumption, and fiscal revenue. The scientific evidence accumulated over the past five decades is clear: tobacco kills. Smokers who begin early in adult life and do...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/259061560874506293/Gabon-Assessment-of-the-Impact-of-Tobacco-Excise-Tax-Increases-on-Price-Consumption-and-Tax-Revenue-over-2018-2021 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31950 |
| Summary: | This country report assesses the impact
of tobacco tax policy increases on prices, consumption, and
fiscal revenue. The scientific evidence accumulated over the
past five decades is clear: tobacco kills. Smokers who begin
early in adult life and do not stop smoking face a
three-fold higher risk of death compared to otherwise
similar non-smokers, resulting in a loss, on average, of at
least one decade of life (Jha and Peto 2014). Smoking is the
second-leading cause of death globally (GBD 2015
Collaborators). Both active smoking and exposure to
secondhand smoke cause disease and kill prematurely (Marquez
and Moreno-Dodson 2017). More than 7 million people die from
tobacco use every year, a figure that is predicted to grow
to more than 8 million a year by 2030, in the absence of
intensified global action (WHO 2017). Annually, the number
of deaths from tobacco-attributable diseases exceeds the
deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined
(WHO 2008). Most of these deaths are due to direct tobacco
use, while close to 10 percent of deaths are the result of
non-smokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke. Developing
countries and vulnerable groups face health risks associated
with tobacco use, and with e-cigarettes. Low- and
middle-income countries (LMICs) face an increasing burden of
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which are now the leading
cause of death in the world, killing 40 million people each
year and representing 70 percent of all annual deaths (WHO
2018). Eighty percent of deaths due to tobacco-related
NCDs—cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung disease,
and diabetes— occur in LMICs, straining health care systems,
contributing to poverty, and posing a major barrier to
development. An estimated 40 percent of the global economic
costs of tobacco use are already borne by these countries,
and there is a risk that the costs will escalate if
effective and sustained tobacco control action is not
supported over the short and medium term. In Gabon,
according to available data from the Demographics and Health
Survey (DHS), it is estimated that among people aged 15-49
years old, the prevalence of smoking was 22.3 percent among
men and 2.9 percent among women. This prevalence of smoking
was found to be the highest among the countries which
conducted DHS in the African region. In Gabon, tobacco use
is among the ten leading risk factors that drive the most
death and disability (IHEM 2017). |
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