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September 5th, 2013:

Hong Kong going backwards on tobacco control Ignoring WHO mPOWER guidelines on excise tax increases

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This Government is too tobacco friendly

7,000 smoking related preventable deaths per year

Ignores WHO mPOWER guidelines

http://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/raise_taxes/en/index.html

Data source : HK Customs and Excise department

Tobacco excise revenue

HK$

Preventative tax

Sticks (billion)

Sticks per month

2006

2,701,121,896

no excise increase

2.67871

223,225,950

2007

2,834,088,771

no excise increase

3.49573

291,310,830

2008

3,070,539,544

no excise increase

3.79022

315,851,660

2009

3,140,029,172

50% excise increase

2.8873

240,608,330

2010

3,817,388,053

no excise increase

3.13746

261,455,160

2011

4,372,179,964

41.45% excise increase

2.87713

239,760,830

2012

5,024,396,014

no excise increase

2.91366

242,804,910

(projected) 2013

5,244,765,700

no excise increase

3.03985

253,321,280

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563564/

Stick consumption comparison

Cost of tobacco-related diseases, including passive smoking, in Hong Kong 1999

2013 UP 13.48% above 2006 levels

Per annum cost to society

HK$ 73.32 billion

(includes loss of life)

2013 UP 5.28% above 2009 levels

http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7309/361

2013 UP 5.65% above 2011 levels

Mortality and smoking in Hong Kong

2013 UP 4.33% above 2012 levels

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