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Evan Blecher

Economist, Fiscal Policies for Health, World Health Organization
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The impact of tobacco advertising bans on consumption in developing countries

E Blecher - Journal of health economics, 2008 - Elsevier
Tobacco advertising bans have become commonplace in developed nations but are less
prevalent in developing countries. The importance of advertising bans as part of …

A mountain or a molehill: is the illicit trade in cigarettes undermining tobacco control policy in South Africa?

E Blecher - Trends in Organized Crime, 2010 - Springer
This study estimates the size of the market for illicit cigarettes in South Africa between 1997
and 2007 in order to consider the impact of the illicit trade in cigarettes on the effectiveness …

Illicit trade in tobacco products: recent trends and coming challenges

G Paraje, M Stoklosa, E Blecher - Tobacco Control, 2022 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background Illicit trade in tobacco products is a menace to the goal of eliminating tobacco
consumption. Although tax policy is very effective in reducing consumption, illicit trade can …

Do cigarette prices motivate smokers to quit? New evidence from the ITC survey

H Ross, E Blecher, L Yan, A Hyland - Addiction, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To examine the importance of cigarette prices in influencing smoking cessation and
the motivation to quit. Design We use longitudinal data from three waves of the International …

[HTML][HTML] An international analysis of the price and affordability of beer

E Blecher, A Liber, C Van Walbeek, L Rossouw - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Aims To apply methods for measuring the affordability of beer in a large cross section of
countries, and to investigate trends in affordability of beer over time. Methods We use the …

Cigarette affordability trends: an update and some methodological comments

EH Blecher, CP Van Walbeek - Tobacco Control, 2009 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Objectives: To calculate cigarette affordability for a number of countries using different
techniques and data, to investigate trends since 1990 and to assess the appropriateness of …

Is youth smoking responsive to cigarette prices? Evidence from low-and middle-income countries

D Kostova, H Ross, E Blecher… - Tobacco Control, 2011 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Objective To estimate the price elasticity of cigarette demand among youth in low-and
middle-income countries (LMIC). Data The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was used to obtain …

[HTML][HTML] Peer reviewed: global trends in the affordability of sugar-sweetened beverages, 1990–2016

E Blecher, AC Liber, JM Drope, B Nguyen… - Preventing chronic …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We used international survey data in a retrospective analysis of 40 high-income
and 42 low-income and middle-income countries from 1990 to 2016. Prices of sugar …

Taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages: Linkages and lessons learned

E Blecher - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to increases
in obesity in both high-income and low-and middle-income countries. Tobacco and alcohol …

Tobacco expenditure and its implications for household resource allocation in Cambodia

RM John, H Ross, E Blecher - Tobacco control, 2012 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Objectives To assess the determinants of smoking behaviour and to estimate the impact of
tobacco consumption on the consumption of other commodities by Cambodian households …