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Background The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (the Protocol)
entered into force in September 2018, and commits Parties to implement a package of …

Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and
improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors' interests …

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 …

Following advances in infectious disease control, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have
overtaken other conditions as causes of premature death and disability in lower-income …

Earmarking means taking all or a portion of total revenue from a tax or group of taxes and
setting it aside or 'protecting'it for a designated expenditure purpose. Earmarking practices …

Background Bidi use remains an intractable public health problem for India. This is partly
due to the informal nature of the bidi supply chain, including tax exemptions for small …

Background Vietnam's national tobacco control strategy aims to reduce the rate of smoking
among male adults from 45% in 2015 to 39% by 2020. The aim of this paper is to assess …

Water sector reform in the Philippines was partly borne out of the need to achieve the
country's UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Philippine authorities …