RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 China has raised the tax on cigarettes: what's next? JF Tobacco Control JO Tob Control FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 609 OP 611 DO 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052534 VO 25 IS 6 A1 Teh-wei Hu A1 Xiulan Zhang A1 Rong Zheng YR 2016 UL http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/6/609.abstract AB 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.