Tobacco Taxation in Vietnam
G Emmanuel Guindon, Centre for Health
Economics and Policy Analysis,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada
Emily McGirr, School of Urban and Regional
Planning,
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Hien Nguyen-Thi-Thu, Department of
Economics,
University of Commerce, Hanoi,
Vietnam
Trung Dang-Vu, Department of Health
Economics,
Hanoi School of Public Health, Hanoi,
Vietnam
Kinh Hoang-Van, Department of Economics,
University of Commerce, Hanoi,
Vietnam
Lam Nguyen-Tuan, World Health Organization,
Vietnam
Introducing a specific
tax of VND 1750 (US$ 0.11) per pack of
20 cigarettes, indexed to inflation, would
raise an additional
VND 4.3 trillion (US$ 268 million) in tax
revenue annually and
avert approximately 339,000 premature
deaths.
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