title: China has raised the tax on cigarettes: what's next?
abstract: The Chinese government raised tobacco tax on 10th May 2015, 10 years after the ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control. The increase in the resulting tax rate as a percentage of the retail price from 49% to 56% is still relatively low compared to the WHO-recommended benchmark, which is about 70% of the retail price. Therefore, ample room remains for the Chinese government to further increase the tax on cigarettes.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.|Center for International Tobacco Control, Public Health Institute, Oakland, California, USA.
authors.forename: Teh-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: China Institute of Health, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiulan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco and Economics, University of International Business of Economics, Beijing, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D000074606:Smoking Prevention / Q000191:economics; D013660:Taxes / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D062789:Tobacco Products / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: Economics; Public policy; Taxation; Tobacco industry