Today, Peers meet again to debate the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. One key area for debate today is the polluter pays levy on tobacco manufacturers, a measure that could generate £700 million a year 💷🚭

📣 Join us for our next #TobaccoEndgame CRE #Webinar on 🚭 tobacco product price caps! Dr Rob Branston will present 'A new avenue for tobacco control: price cap regulation'. 📆Wednesday, 12 November ⏰9:00am AEST 🔗 tobacco-endgame.centre.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... @robbranston.bsky.social

(3/3) Our recommendation is that the content be reviewed and, if found to be in breach, taken down. We would also recommend that the BBC exercises caution in future when deciding whether to engage with the tobacco industry and its representatives. Read our complaint letter to the BBC below 👇

(2/3) We believe that by giving a powerful platform to a tobacco company, this content breached the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines on impartiality and related standards.

Very happy to have been a co-signatory on this complaint letter to the BBC

My new paper looks at the impact of COVID travel restrictions on the sale of duty-free tobacco products in #Taiwan. Not being able to access cheap #dutyfree meant less #tobacco sold, a win for public health. Time for duty-free tobacco to be banned! doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...

Delighted to report that @allengallagher.bsky.social and I have been appointed as Co-Directors of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. We aim to continue the great work that @tcrgbath.bsky.social has done to date! www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

My new paper with @zainebdanish.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social @partnershipfree.bsky.social on #HTP taxes/prices in Ukraine. We find similar pricing tactics to combustion cigs and that lower HTP taxes were just a subsidy for the #tobacco industry tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Producing #tobacco products is hugely profitable. Wholesale price caps & a #polluterpays levy could stop the industry making so much from a deadly product, increase government tax revenues, and stop the industry selling with price. Public health + government finances both win! tinyurl.com/mt5fb5bs

Great new blog by Mark Lloyd - Head of Policy at the RSA / former economic and fiscal policy in HM Treasury and No10 - adding his voice to our work that calls for a new scheme to fix the price of tobacco products and apply a #polluterpays levy to raise £700m annually www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

APPG report just out calls for 10 measures to make #smoking obsolete in the UK within 20 years. It adopts our work and joins calls for the introduction of a #polluterpays levy to limit industry prices and raise £700 million a year from the #tobaccoindustry ash.org.uk/resources/vi...

🎉Last night MPs voted to pass the historic Tobacco and Vapes Bill which will phase out the sale of tobacco to the next generation, protecting children from the harms of smoking.

#taxation is one of the key tools to address tobacco use, and in the EU this is governed by the tobacco tax directive #TTD. In my new @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social paper with Prof López-Nicolás/Dr Ross, we evaluate leaked proposal for reform, finding enhancements not perfection doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...

(2/2) The report by The Investigative Desk with support from Tax Justice Network Africa and the Tobacco Control Research Group suggests there could be a tax discrepancy of up to $28 million.

Delighted to have been involved with this really important project.

💪Strong words from Commissioner Hoekstra in FISC! On Feb 6, @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu called for stricter tobacco control, higher taxes & fairer taxation for new products across the EU. 💪🔥 Great to see the Commissioner stepping up! We look forward to the revision of the TTD. 🚭

✨ Episode five of our podcast Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is out now. Dr. Allen Gallagher joins Louis to lift the lid on #illicittrade in tobacco including how #BigTobacco is involved and how it can be tackled. Listen: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus... #NewPodcast #DeadlyIndustryPod

✨ Episode four of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is out now. In this episode, Dr. Rob Branston discusses all things money with Louis including the vast profitability of the #tobaccoindustry and how #tobaccotax works. Listen: www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/de... #NewPodcast #DeadlyIndustryPod

Discover the ground-breaking research of The University's @tcrgbath.bsky.social with their new podcast. In this gripping 8-episode series, hosted by TCRG investigative researcher Louis Laurence, you'll dive deep into the tobacco industry's pursuit of profit, at the expense of public health