WHO plans roadmap to fight against tobacco use

dostoevskydr

cmknight Post time: 2018-10-4 08:57
The WHO can make all the roadmaps it wants. The fact remains that as long as governments use tobacco ...

dostoevskydr

Jaaja Post time: 2018-10-5 14:40
Actually in China the state does not only tax tobacco sales, but runs the industry. Tobacco indust ...

The sector generated 1.14 trillion yuan in profits and taxation in 2015.....

emanreus

dostoevskydr Post time: 2018-10-5 17:37
The sector generated 1.14 trillion yuan in profits and taxation in 2015.....

I'm afraid uncle Sam will come out on top of this number...

Afghanistan is a proper gold mine for them
      Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the World’s supply of opium which is used to produce grade 4 heroin...
    The heroin trade, instated at the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979 and protected by the CIA, generated cash earnings in Western markets in excess of $200 billion dollars a year...

  

Motika

Start with ban on chemicals used in it first

cmknight

pnp Post time: 2018-10-5 11:41
You are entitled to call that a myth; I think otherwise.  There are marginal smokers whose income  ...

You can think otherwise all you want. The fact remains that tobacco addiction is so strong that even "marginal smokers", as you like to call them, will budget their cigarette supply before anything else. Even if their budget does not allow for cigarettes themselves, they will budget for tobacco and rolling papers (or tubes).

Tobacco taxes are used all over the world for tobacco control, not just in China.

Bwahahahahahaha!!! Thank you. I needed that little giggle this morning. Tobacco taxes are added to "General Revenue", and used for everything EXCEPT tobacco control, and in China, in case you haven't noticed, health care is a user-pay system. Tobacco taxes do NOT pay for the provision of healthcare for sick anybody.

pnp

cmknight Post time: 2018-10-7 01:56
You can think otherwise all you want. The fact remains that tobacco addiction is so strong that ev ...

"Tobacco taxes are added to "General Revenue", and used for everything EXCEPT tobacco control, and in China, in case you haven't noticed, health ..."

Even if that is true, that the taxes go into General Revenue, the deterrent effect is there, to some extent, depending on how high the taxes are set.  The real purpose for the tax is deterrence, not revenue; just like traffic offence penalties are not always plowed back into public transport.  Regardless where the tax money goes to, the Chinese Govt has to shoulder the high cost of looking after the sick smokers- no small task in a nation with the world's largest number of smokers!  That 'user pay' you alluded to does not tell the whole story, you did  not mention that it is heavily subsidised by the State, partly out of tobacco tax!

cmknight

pnp Post time: 2018-10-8 11:16
"Tobacco taxes are added to "General Revenue", and used for everything EXCEPT tobacco control, and  ...

[quote]That 'user pay' you alluded to does not tell the whole story, you did  not mention that it is heavily subsidised by the State, partly out of tobacco tax![/quote

Either provide proof of this "subsidization" or ba ni pi yan zi bi shang.