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. 2020 Apr 28;3:1516. Originally published 2019 Aug 14. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.13051.2

Table 4. Cumulative impact of a 50% cigarette price increase in Vietnam and Indonesia (from GTEC, 2018) 5.

Vietnam § Indonesia §
Number of male smokers aged ≥15 years before
price increase (in millions)
  First (bottom 20%) 3.7 13.6
  Second 3.3 12.0
  Third 2.6 9.8
  Fourth 2.6 9.7
  Fifth (top 20%) 2.2 7.7
  Total 13.2 52.9
  First: fifth ratio 1.5 1.8
Number of men who quit smoking after price
increase (in thousands)
  First (bottom 20%) 785.8 3,255.5
  Second 569.6 2,292.4
  Third 336.1 1,406.3
  Fourth 214.9 915.4
  Fifth (top 20%) 99.8 357.4
  Total 2,006.1 8,227.0
  First: fifth ratio 7.9 9.1
Total deaths averted due to COPD, stroke, heart
disease, and cancer (in thousands)
  First (bottom 20%) 341.6 1,418
  Second 259.1 998
  Third 179.0 612
  Fourth 112.9 399
  Fifth (top 20%) 49.4 156
  Total 941.9 3,582
  First: fifth ratio 6.9 9.1
Total life-years gained (in millions)
  First (bottom 20%) 5.6 22.5
  Second 4.1 15.8
  Third 2.4 9.7
  Fourth 1.5 6.3
  Fifth (top 20%) 0.7 2.5
  Total 14.3 56.8
  First: fifth ratio 7.9 9.1
Treatment cost averted (in LCU, billions ($Int,
millions))
  First (bottom 20%) 2,284 (296) 19,776 (4,120)
  Second 1,798 (233) 15,456 (3,220)
  Third 1,536 (199) 13,296 (2,770)
  Fourth 910 (118) 10,512 (2,190)
  Fifth (top 20%) 564 (73) 5,040 (1,050)
  Total 7,092 (919) 60,080(13,350)
  First: fifth ratio 4.0 3.9
Number of men avoiding catastrophic health
expenditures (in thousands)
  First (bottom 20%) 112.6 637.9
  Second 88.6 499.1
  Third 75.7 428.6
  Fourth 44.9 338.8
  Fifth (top 20%) 27.7 163.4
  Total 349.6 2,067.9
  First: fifth ratio 4.1 3.9
Number of men avoiding extreme poverty
  First (bottom 20%) 107,418 594,663
  Second 77,294 499,090
  Third 14,323 426,300
  Fourth 3,790 84,068
  Fifth (top 20%) 203 20,110
  Total 203,028 1,624,2231
  First: fifth ratio 529.1 29.6
Additional tax revenues (in LCU, billions ($Int,
millions))
  First (bottom 20%) 4,213 (546) 323 (67)
  Second 3,464 (449) 806 (168)
  Third 3,395 (440) 1,181 (246)
  Fourth 3,935 (510) 1,661 (346)
  Fifth (top 20%) 3,734 (484) 2,155 (449)
  Total 18,743 (2,429) 6127 (1,280)
  First: fifth ratio 1.1 0.2

§Price elasticity used, by income group: First -0.635, second/third/fourth -0.4, fifth -0.122.

Number of male smokers aged ≥15 years in Vietnam is higher in the GTEC analysis than in our current analysis because the GTEC analysis used the male smoking prevalence in 2010 which is higher than the prevalence in 2015 used in our current analysis (overall male smoking prevalence: 39.1% vs 36.1%).