As a country with one of the highest male smoking rates and one of the lowest cigarette prices in the world, Korea has prioritized many tobacco control efforts, including bans on smoking in public places, regulations on tobacco advertising, and public education about the harms of tobacco use. Consistent implementation of tobacco control policies has helped to magnify the importance of using tobacco tax rises as the basis of tobacco price policy – though these reforms took a long time to implement.
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Document Date
2018/06/01
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Document Type
Working Paper
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Report Number
127248
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Volume No
1
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1
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2018/06/15
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Disclosed
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Doc Name
Reducing tobacco use through taxation : the experience of the Republic of Korea
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Keywords
tobacco tax; smoking prevalence; tobacco product; excise tax; taxation status; price of cigarette; national health insurance; increase in cigarette tax; demand for tobacco product; increases in tax rate; tobacco control policy; cigarette price; low income group; value added tax; effective tax rate; local government tax; tobacco control effort; tobacco tax revenue; Tax Reform; Tobacco Taxation; national health expenditure; per capita income; optimal tax rate; excise tax revenue; health insurance expenditure; consumption of tobacco; smoking in public; tobacco control program; marginal social damage; health promotion program; price policy; income growth rate; public health objective; cigarette warning labels; quantity of cigarette; cigarette price rises; impact of tax; types of taxes; total tax revenue; taxes on goods; effects of tobacco; differential tax rates; public health concern; world trade organization; global health; local government revenue; excise tax system; public education initiative; excise tax rates; global tobacco epidemic
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Reducing tobacco use through taxation : the experience of the Republic of Korea (English). WBG Global Tobacco Control Program Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/150681529071812689/Reducing-tobacco-use-through-taxation-the-experience-of-the-Republic-of-Korea