Financing opportunities in the time of COVID-19: Re-examining cigarette taxes with a new scorecard

The 18th WCTOH has announced its plan to hold a virtual Leadership Summit on Tobacco Control from 6-7 May 2021. Ahead of the Summit a series of open-access webinars is being held to provide on-going access to expert opinion on issues of importance to the Tobacco Control community. The third of these webinars entitled 'Fiscal strategies for financing health services in pandemic times: the case for tobacco tax' was held on 15th December 2020. During the webinar, S. Sparkes, World Health Organisation, Switzerland, and F. J. Chaloupka, University of Illinois Health Policy Centre, United States, were the invited expert speakers.

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The 18th WCTOH is planning a virtual Leadership Summit and hosting a series of webinars for the Tobacco Control community. One webinar focused on fiscal strategies for financing health services during a pandemic, with a discussion on the role of tobacco taxes by expert speakers from WHO and the University of Illinois Health Policy Centre.