How taxes on tobacco, nicotine and sugar sweetened beverages help save lives (Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal special edition)

This EMJH special edition examines how tax policy can drive progress towards achieving global NCD and SDG targets. 

It examines:

1. Countries’ experience with tobacco products and SSB taxation and the challenges they face in imposing health taxes
2. Countries’ experience of financing and budgeting for sugar consumption and tobacco control
3. The return on investments in NCD, tobacco and SSB control
4. Lessons from multisectoral approaches to health taxation
5. How health taxation can support national health budgets
6. Evidence informing the next steps and future vision of countries.