Vital Stories Tobacco Control in China: the Time has Come We just completed an annual partner meeting of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use in Beijing, and closed the meeting with a renewed sense of optimism about the progress made in the past year, and ways in which we can all help to move things even further along in 2014.
Publications Tobacco Taxation and Its Potential Impact in China An increase in the specific excise tax of RMB 1 on a pack of cigarettes would increase government revenue by RMB 64.9 billion (US$ 7.9 billion), save 3.4 million lives, reduce medical costs by RMB 2.68 billion (US$ 325 million) and generate a productivity gain of RMB 9.92 billion (US$ 1.2 billion) for the Chinese economy.