Retail Price Surveillance of Tobacco in China

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Retail Price Surveillance of Tobacco in
China Dr. Jiang Yuan Tobacco Control
Office China Center for Disease Control and
Prevention

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Price is the most effective policy to curb
prevalence of smoking

• Price tool is more susceptible to the youth and
  population in poverty
• Facilitate smokers to quit or reduce smoking
  amount
• Increment of government revenue by increasing
  price of tobacco
• Ministry of Finance introduced policy on
  adjusting price of tobacco in 2009. How ever,
  taxation policy didnt change correspondently,
  which brought no affect on tobacco control

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Effect of Intervention Measures for Tobacco
ControlAdult Smoking Rate in New York, 1993-2007
Reduced 300,000 smoking population , and
prevented about 100, 000 people from early death
Increase tobacco tariff in cities and states
3 years mean value
3 year mean value
3 year mean value
No-smoking working place
Adult Percentum
Implementation of Nicotine sticker program
Media Propaganda Campaigns
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Comparison of tobacco tariff rate among different
countries
Increasing tobacco tariff rate, raising tobacco
price, and curbing prevalence of tobacco
Source Tobacco Control Report by WHO in 2008
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Cigarettes Prices in Different Countries (Unit
US dollars)
Source Tobacco Control Report by WHO in 2008
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Comparison of Every Hundred Boxes of Cigarettes
Proportion in Disposable Income
Source Tobacco Control Report by WHO in 2008
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Increasing Affordability of Cigarettes in China
2009?WHO????
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Tariff Rate of Tobacco Products Adjusted in 2009
Before May 31st, 2009 After May 31st, 2009
Specific tax per pack (RMB, Yuan) 0.06 0.06
Ad valorem tax ?5 Yuan, 45 ?7 Yuan, 56
lt5 Yuan, 30 lt7 Yuan, 36
Whole sale price per pack 0 5
Its a pity that there was no change in retail
price
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Monitoring Changes of Retail Price of Tobacco in
Seven Cities of China by ITC Program
Smoking behavior Relevant information Attitude Tob
acco price No-smoking progress in public
places Tobacco advertisement Tobacco cessation
services
tobacco price 3 retailers, 5600 smokers
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Retail Price of Tobacco Products(not-adjusted
CPI)
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Mean Price of Tobacco Products
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Prices of Cigarettes Used by Smokers
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Price Changes of Cigarettes Used by Smokers in
Six Cities during 2006-2010
Unit RMB Yuan
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Changes of Retail Price of Some Cigarettes
(???2007 ?????)
2007? 10-12?
2010? 6-7?
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Changes of Purchasing Price Reported by Smokers-
Top 3 Brands of Cigarettes in Each City
(???2007 ?????)
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Conclusion
Price of Cigarettes does not change nominally,
however, it does decrease sharply in deed.