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. 2018 Apr 11;361:k1162. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k1162

Table 2.

Cumulative impact of a 50% cigarette price increase on health and financing outcomes

Variables by income groups Lower middle income countries* Upper middle income countries* Min-Max (%) Median (%)
India Indonesia Bangladesh Philippines Vietnam Armenia China Mexico Turkey Brazil Colombia Thailand Chile
No of male smokers aged ≥15 years before 50% price increase (in millions)
First (bottom 20%) 7.3 13.6 3.0 3.0 3.7 0.1 63.9 1.6 1.8 4.2 0.6 2.8 0.5 14-27 19
Second 10.2 12.0 3.3 2.8 3.3 0.1 68.5 2.0 2.4 3.6 0.6 3.3 0.6 18-27 22
Third 9.5 9.8 3.1 2.6 2.6 0.1 63.1 1.8 2.9 2.9 0.7 2.7 0.7 18-25 21
Fourth 9.1 9.7 3.8 2.5 2.6 0.1 47.7 2.0 2.6 3.1 0.6 2.3 0.7 16-23 19
Group (top 20%) 10.0 7.7 3.0 2.2 2.4 0.1 47.7 2.1 1.9 2.0 0.6 1.0 0.8 8-24 17
Total=490 46.1 52.9 16.2 13.2 14.6 0.6 290.9 9.5 11.6 15.9 3.1 12.0 3.2
First: group ratio 0.7 1.8 1.0 1.3 1.5 1.2 1.3 0.8 0.9 2.1 0.9 2.7 0.6
Total life years gained (in millions)
First (bottom 20%) 12.3 22.5 5.4 5.3 5.6 0.1 83.6 3.7 3.3 6.5 0.9 4.5 0.8 26-40 31
Second 13.7 15.8 4.8 4.0 4.1 0.1 71.6 3.8 3.4 4.5 0.8 4.2 0.8 26-32 28
Third 9.4 9.7 3.3 2.8 2.4 0.1 49.2 2.5 3.1 2.7 0.7 2.6 0.7 17-25 20
Fourth 6.0 6.3 2.7 1.8 1.5 0.1 24.6 1.9 1.8 1.8 0.4 1.5 0.5 8-16 12
Group (top 20%) 3.2 2.5 1.1 0.8 0.7 <0.1 12.0 0.9 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.3 2-8 5
Total=449 44.7 56.8 17.2 14.7 14.3 0.5 241 12.8 12.2 16.1 3.0 13.0 3.1
First: group ratio 3.8 9.1 5.1 6.9 7.9 6.1 7.0 4.0 4.9 11.0 4.6 14.0 3.1
Disease cost averted (adjusted for $ PPP; in millions)
First (bottom 20%) 815 4120 81 647 296 16 33400 2170 445 1850 363 878 457 16-34 29
Second 1040 3220 132 538 233 17 35500 2260 566 1720 357 836 494 24-32 27
Third 773 2770 97 405 199 16 24900 1980 524 1170 264 507 436 19-26 22
Fourth 547 2190 136 255 118 10 13400 1600 322 874 168 290 373 11-27 15
Group (top 20%) 313 1050 61 119 73 4 6980 818 132 295 93 64 224 2-12 7
Total=157 002 3488 13 350 507 1964 919 63 114180 8828 1989 5909 1245 2575 1984
First: group ratio 2.6 3.9 1.3 5.4 4 3.7 4.8 2.7 3.4 6.3 3.9 13.7 2
Additional tax revenues (adjusted for $ PPP; in billions)
First (bottom 20%) 0.9 2.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 <0.1 9.5 0.3 0.6 0.2 <0.1 0.4 0.1 5-22 10
Second 1.6 2.6 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.1 14.2 0.5 1.6 0.5 0.1 0.8 0.2 13-21 17
Third 1.9 3.4 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.1 14.9 0.4 2.8 0.8 0.1 0.8 0.2 16-26 21
Fourth 2.5 4.8 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.1 12.7 0.8 3.2 0.8 0.1 1 0.3 19-30 26
Group (top 20%) 3.5 3.4 0.8 0.3 0.5 0.1 15 0.9 2.9 0.7 0.1 0.7 0.4 19-35 26
Total=122 10.4 16.4 2.6 1.5 2.4 0.3 66.3 2.9 11.1 3.1 0.4 3.6 1.3
First: group ratio 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.6 1.1 0.6 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.2
% additional tax to GDP 0.1 1.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1-1.1
*

World Bank definition; PPP=purchasing power parity; GDP=gross domestic product.