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TOBACCO CONTROL
卷 23, 期 1, 页码 45-50出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050385
关键词
Tobacco industry; Taxation; Price; Economics
资金
- National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health [RO1CA160695]
- Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellowship
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute of Health Research
- UK Clinical Research Collaboration
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G007489/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K023195/1, MR/K023195/1B] Funding Source: researchfish
Objective A system of price-cap regulation has previously been suggested to address the market failure inherent to the tobacco industry. This would benefit public health directly (eg, by making it extremely difficult for the industry to sell cut-price cigarettes, or use price as a marketing strategy) and indirectly (eg, by reducing the available money the industry has for spending on marketing and lobbying). This paper explores the feasibility of applying such a scheme in the UK. Methods The impact of price-capping is modelled using optimistic and conservative scenarios, each with different assumptions, and using 2009 and 2010 profit data for the major companies selling tobacco in the UK. The models are used to calculate by how much would profit be reduced through the imposition of price caps, and thus, how much revenue could be raised in additional taxes, assuming the end price the consumer pays does not change. Results Tobacco companies enjoy massive profit margins, up to 67%, in the UK. The optimistic scenario suggests a potential increase in UK tobacco tax revenue of 585.7 million in 2010 (548.4 pound million in 2009), while the conservative model suggests an increase in revenue of 433.6 pound million in 2010 (399.2 pound million in 2009). This would be approximately enough to fund, twice over, UK-wide antitobacco smuggling measures, and smoking cessation services in England, including the associated pharmacotherapies, to help people stop smoking. Conclusions Applying a system of price-cap regulation in the UK would raise around 500 pound million per annum (US$750 million). This is likely to be an underestimate because of cautious assumptions used in the model. These significant financial benefits, in addition to the public health benefits that would be generated, suggest this is a policy that should be given serious consideration.
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