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Research letter
When a tax increase fails as a tobacco control policy: the ITC China project evaluation of the 2009 cigarette tax increase in China
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- Cigarette excise tax
- price
- China
- economics
- prevalence
- smuggling
- taxation and price
- environmental tobacco smoke
- health services
- packaging and labelling
- psychosocial theories
- research methods
- social psychology
- primary health care
- cessation
China ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (the WHO FCTC) in 2006 and thus has the obligation to increase the prices and taxes of cigarettes. In May 2009, China raised cigarette excise taxes, which was cited by a Chinese government official as a measure of FCTC implementation.1 Researchers noticed that cigarette retail prices in China did not change after the 2009 tax adjustment; however, their conclusion was based on observations but not survey data.2
We used …