TY - JOUR T1 - Health taxes: a call for papers JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010709 VL - 7 IS - 10 SP - e010709 AU - Robert Marten AU - Jeremias Paul AU - Tessa Tan Torres Edejer AU - Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum Y1 - 2022/10/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/10/e010709.abstract N2 - Health taxes are levies on products that harm human and planetary health.1 They are critical policy tools to advance public health; health taxes save and improve millions of lives and generate resources to invest in health and other developmental priorities.2 However, health taxes are also one of governments’ most underused interventions. A 2021 WHO report showed that only 13% of the world’s population is covered by best-practice levels of tobacco taxes despite being the single most effective way to reduce tobacco use.3 There are important linkages across tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in terms of how taxes are designed, developed and implemented.4 There is also growing interest for health taxes on products like fossil fuels,5 meat,6 as well as salt among others. Accordingly, governments are requesting WHO’s technical assistance.Yet emerging evidence suggests how they are framed7 and developed within their … ER -