WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration / / World Health Organization

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.44
• Soggetto topico: Tobacco - Taxation; Tobacco - Taxation - Law and legislation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; References; Annex
• Sommario/riassunto: Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death globally, killing more than five million people each year. Tobacco use also creates considerable economic costs, from greater spending on health care to treat the diseases it brings on in users and those exposed to tobacco smoke to the lost productivity resulting from the premature deaths it causes. Of all the many interventions for reducing tobacco use, a significant increase in tobacco product taxes and prices has been demonstrated to be the single most effective and cost-effective intervention, particularly among the poor and the
• Titolo autorizzato: WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration
• ISBN: 1-282-76090-4; 9786612760907; 92-4-068523-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809309003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II