How raising tobacco taxes can save lives and cut poverty across the Asia-Pacific
- Written by Sudyumna Dahal, PhD Student, Australian National University
ShutterstockThe human costs of tobacco and smoking worldwide are huge. 1.3 billion people use tobacco, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. More than 8 million people die prematurely because of tobacco, at an annual economic loss of at least US$1.4 trillion. And you don’t have to be a smoker to be harmed: secondhand smoke exposure...
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