Contents

Theme overview

1. The tobacco economy

   1.1. Growing tobacco
   1.2. Tobacco manufacture
   1.3. Tobacco trade

2. Economic and social costs of tobacco use
3. Public interventions: cost-effective tobacco control measures

   3.1. Why should governments intervene in the tobacco market?
   3.2. Cost-effective tobacco control measures?
   3.3. Tobacco taxation

4. Economic effects of implementing tobacco control policies and reducing tobacco use

   4.1. Will tobacco control policies damage a nation's economy?
   4.2. Does raising tax cause fiscal revenues to fall?
   4.3. Does raising tax encourage smuggling?
   4.4. Are tax increases unfair on poorer populations?