Economics of Tobacco Taxation in Russia
"If
Russia chooses to reach the level where tobacco
tax represents 70 percent of the retail price,
up to 2.7 million
tobacco-related deaths among the Russian
population
can be avoided. Furthermore, the government
would
collect an additional RUB 153 billion (US$ 6
billion) in
excise tax revenue per year"
Hana Zarubova Ross, PhD,
Epidemiology and Surveillance
Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta,
Georgia
Samina Shariff, MPH, Epidemiology and
Surveillance Research,
American Cancer Society, Atlanta,
Georgia
Anna Gilmore, PhD
University of Bath & European
Centre on Health
of Societies in Transition, London
School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, UK
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