WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Egypt Tobacco Industry Profile
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet gives an overview of the tobacco industry profile in the Egypt.
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
How can the cardiovascular community improve tobacco control?
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This report outlines various strategies for the cardiovascular community to improve tobacco control in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Best practices around the world
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet based on data from Brazil and the United Kingdom show that policies against illicit trade can reduce illicit manufacturing or the illicit cigarette market. It also shows that some countries have successfully reduced illicit trade in t...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Best practices around the world
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet based on data from Brazil and the United Kingdom show that policies against illicit trade can reduce illicit manufacturing or the illicit cigarette market. It also shows that some countries have successfully reduced illicit trade in t...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Best practices around the world
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet based on data from Brazil and the United Kingdom show that policies against illicit trade can reduce illicit manufacturing or the illicit cigarette market. It also shows that some countries have successfully reduced illicit trade in t...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Facts and figures on the illicit tobacco trade
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet shows how tobacco is an attractive product to smugglers because the tax on tobacco is a high proportion of price, thus evading tax by diverting tobacco products onto the illicit market (where sales are largely tax-free) creates a cons...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Immediate action in 10 steps
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet covers the 10 different steps that are suggested in order to combat the illicit trade and smuggling of tobacco. It states 10 comprehensive steps that should be taken in order to ensure that the problem of illicit tobacco trade can be...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Immediate action in 10steps
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet covers the 10 different steps that are suggested in order to combat the illicit trade and smuggling of tobacco. It states 10 comprehensive steps that should be taken in order to ensure that the problem of illicit tobacco trade can be...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Immediate action in 10steps
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet covers the 10 different steps that are suggested in order to combat the illicit trade and smuggling of tobacco. It states 10 comprehensive steps that should be taken in order to ensure that the problem of illicit tobacco trade can be...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit tobacco trade: Taxation and illicit trade
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet shows that the tobacco industry has claimed that high taxes drive smuggling and has sometimes argued successfully to governments that they should not increase tobacco tax because this will increase the level of smuggling.
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Illicit trade: The tobacco industry’s role
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet shows the evidence of the direct and indirect involvement of the tobacco industry in cigarette smuggling. This fact sheet states that evidence of complicity of the tobacco industry in cigarette smuggling extends to Lebanon and the Mid...
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Implementing the WHO recommendations on the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report provides a situational analysis of the progress made in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in implementing the WHO recommendations and identifies issues Member States need to consider when adopting policies intended to restrict the marketin...