Research

The effect of imposing a higher, uniform tobacco tax in Vietnam

Hoang Van Kinh¹ , Hana Ross² , David Levy³ , Nguyen Thac Minh⁴ and Vu Thi Bich Ngoc⁵

¹Ph.D candidate, MSc, Vietnam Commercial University, Vietnam

²Senior Scientist, Research Triangle Institute, USA

³Professor, University of Baltimore, USA

⁴Instructor, Vietnam Commercial University, Vietnam

⁵Econometrician and instructor, Institute of Finance, Vietnam

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Health Research Policy and Systems 2006, 4:6doi:10.1186/1478-4505-4-6

Published:	26 June 2006

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Tobacco use increases the risk of many fatal diseases such as cancer, emphysema, heart disease and other circulatory diseases[1]. If trends in tobacco use continue, approximately 500 million people alive today will die from smoking, and, by 2030, tobacco is expected to be the leading cause of premature death, accounting for about 10 million deaths per year.[2]