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About ITEN-Poland
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Canary Islands
ITEN Director and ITEN Deputy Director contributed two chapters to the
textbook "El Tabaquismo" published in Canary Islands. The textbook
accompanies a distance-learning course on tobacco control.
Economic
Determinants of Smoking Initiation and Cessation, Ross H. In "El
Tabaquismo," edited by Jose Ramon Calvo Fernandez. Canary Islands
2003. (146KB PDF)
Economics
of Tobacco Control, Ross H, Chaloupka F. In "El Tabquismo,"
edited by Jose Ramon Calvo Fernandez. Canary Islands 2003. (151KB PDF)
Czech Republic
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"Public and Private Sector Partnerships to Reduce Tobacco Dependence"
and on "Regulation of Tobacco Products and Tobacco Dependence Treatment
Products."
Prague, Czech Republic
December 13-14, 2001
Agenda
(22KB PDF)
ITEN
Policy Brief, Ross H (164KB PDF)
Other Activities
- ITEN Deputy Director, Hana Ross, was invited to provide economic evidence
on the topic of tobacco advertising ban in front of the Czech Parliament
in September 2002. The bill banning tobacco advertising passed the vote
on April 1, 2003. Tobacco
Advertising and Its Economic Consequences, Ross H. (166KB PDF)
- ITEN continues to work closely with its colleagues in the Czech
Republic. One of the accomplishments is the publication of the book Curbing
the Epidemics in February 2004 with an introductory paragraph by the ITEN
Director and co-author of the study.
- ITEN
Deputy Director attended a Parliamentarian seminar in Prague on March
11, 2005 where she led a discussion about the future financing of health
promotional activities in the Czech Republic. The seminar was chaired
by the Minister of Health and attended by 138 participants including Parliament
deputies, representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance,
the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, representatives of health insurance
companies, labor unions, representatives of the administrative regions
and other organizations (such as the Czech League Against Cancer, local
WHO office, Consumers Protection Association, Czech Patients' Association,
Health Information Centre, Czech Helsinki Committee, Czech Pharmacist
Chamber). "Financial
Ssupport for Public Health: Earmarked Tobacco Tax" (107KB
PDF) was presented by Dr. Hana Ross and tobacco tax earmarking
has been successfully applied in numerous countries such as Thailand,
but also 10 EU countries.
Germany
ITEN cooperates with Dr. Martina Poetschke-Langer, the Head of Executive
Office Cancer Prevention of the German Cancer Research Center. ITEN submitted
a tender for a project in Germany providing an economic overview of tobacco
control in Germany. The project is currently on hold.
Ireland
ITEN Director presented the plenary talk at the September
2002 Economics of Tobacco Control and Irish Fiscal Policy Seminar in Dublin,
and engaged in a series of consultations with Irish policy makers, social
organizations, and the Office of Tobacco Control Policy, as well as participated
in several media events around the seminar.
The
Economics of Tobacco Control, Chaloupka F. (479KB PDF)
Poland
The
3rd European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECTOH
2002)
Warsaw, Poland - June 19-22, 2002
I. Parallel Presentation
Session D2 - Tuesday, June 20, 2002
Title: The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control
Co-chairs: C. Ciecierski, K. Krasovsky, H. Ross
A. Gilmore, M. McKee The
impact of trade liberalization on tobacco consumption: the example of
the FSU
M. Van der Bruggen, R. Welte,
M. Koopmanschap, H. Jager Productivity
costs of smoking for Dutch employers in 1999
J. Pinilla The effect of
cigarette prices on smoking consolidation habits among young adults
K. Krasovsky
Tobacco agriculture
policy in the Ukraine
Y.W. Tsai,
S.F. Shih, H.Y. Sung
The
determinants of purchasing smuggled cigarettes in Taiwan
O.
Shafey, V. Cokkinides, T. M. Cavalcante, M. Teixeira, C. Vianna,
M. J. Thun Case
studies in international tobacco surveillance: Anomalous trade patterns
as sentinel indicators of smuggling
F.
Portillo, M. Velasco,
F.Antoñanzas
Economic
evaluation of pharmacotherapies for smoking control in Spain
H.
Ross
A
critique of Philip Morris’s study from the Czech Republic
(62KB PDF)
II. Post-Conference
Workshop Session - Saturday, June 22, 2002
Title: The Economics of Tobacco Control
Topics:
i. Ross, H. Estimating
Demand for Tobacco (1.98MB PDF)
ii. Ciecierski, C. Studying
Industry Aspects: Cigarettes Smuggling and Tobacco Marketing at the Point
o of Sale - Example from Poland
(3.24MB PDF)
iii. Ross, H. Tobacco
Control and Employment (199KB
PDF)
Other
Activities
Fullbright grant was awarded to Christina Czart
Ciecierski for work on the Economics of Tobacco Control in Poland.
ITEN and Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC) are considering
a joint research project to study tobacco smuggling issues in Poland.
Portugal
ITEN works closely with the Chairman of the National Council for Smoking
Prevention, Dr. Pais Clemente. ITEN Deputy Director was invited to present
at the 1st National Congress on Tobacco Prevention in Lisbon, November
2003.
Economics
of Tobacco Control, Ross H. (498KB PDF).
ITEN Deputy
Director provided an article based on the presentation that will be published
in Portuguese in a book about the Congress.
Slovakia
International Pneumological Conference in Martin, Slovak Republic
October 2001
Presentation
Youth
Smoking Uptake Progress: Price and Public Policy Effects, Ross H.
(717KB PDF)
- ITEN organized a three day conference with the theme: "Tobacco
Tax Earmarking and Sustainability of Tobacco Control Effort in Accession
Countries," in Bratislava, April
2004. The conference was sponsored by the Open Society Institute (OSI).
Representatives of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Ukraine
and Hungary discussed strategies of tobacco tax earmarking with representatives
of ITEN, IMF, OSI, EU, ThaiHealth Foundation, Action on Smoking and Health
(ASH) in Australia and SmokeFree London. The participants developed both
long- and short-term action plans. ITEN will provide technical support
for these plans.
Conference
Resolution (4KB PDF)
Finland
and Earmarked Tax, Simonen (476KB PDF)
IMF
and Tobacco Taxes, Baunsgaard (140KB PDF)
Tobacco
Control, Health and Macroeconomy, Jha, Chaloupka, Peck, Ross, Zatonski,
Jamison (587KB PDF)
Thailand
and Earmarked Tobacco Tax, Vateesatokit (195KB PDF)
Tobacco
Control in Slovakia, Kavcoca, Slaby (521KB PDF)
The
Economics of Earmarked Tobacco Taxes: Pros and Cons, Chaloupka (771KB
PDF)
Other Activities in EU Member States
- Information about ITEN project was published in the Filter, Tobacco
Advocacy Newsletter for Central and Eastern European Countries (Vol. 1,
No. 4, 30 December 2001). Filter is a quarterly published by the Health
21 Hungarian Foundation, and is supported by a grant from the World Bank.
- ITEN initiated a grant application to the Visegrad fund by a group of
researchers from CEE. The participating countries include Hungary, Czech
Republic, Slovak Republic and Poland.
- ITEN organized a two-day workshop for the OSI tobacco control fellows
in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop was titled "Policy Training Seminar
for the International Policy Fellows." Dr. Ross's presentation focused
on tobacco taxes, tax and the poor, and tax and smuggling. Tobacco
Tax (349KB PDF).
- ITEN Deputy Director participated in the Tobacco Control and Development
Policy Conference organized by the European Commission, Directorate General
Health and Consumer Production in Brussels, February 2003.
- ITEN was invited to participate in a tender to the European Commission
that called for writing a report on tobacco control in European Union
(EU) and newly accession countries. ITEN joined the ASPECT Consortium
that won the tender. ITEN will coordinate a chapter on tobacco prices
in EU. Tobacco
Control in Europe (106KB PDF).
- ITEN was invited to participate in writing a chapter on the economic
impact of tobacco consumption in Europe for a report commissioned by the
European Commission. ITEN participates in a series of workshops and meeting
related to this project. The first workshop on tobacco product regulations
was held in Brussels in March 2004 where the ITEN Deputy Director presented
the outline for the economic chapter of the report. Economic
Aspects of Tobacco Use in Europe (130KB PDF).
- European Network for Smoking Prevention/General Assembly Meeting 2004
and ASPECT Consortium Meetings in Krakow, May 2004. Economic
Aspect of Smoke Free Workplaces (93KB PDF) and Program
(44KB PDF).
- ITEN participated in Change is in the Air - Future Directions in Tobacco
Control in the European Union, June 17-18, 2004. Conference
Program (83KB PDF) and Parrallel
Conference Program (11KB PDF). Current
Economic Research Needs: Findings of the ASPECT Report and ITEN Project
on Economics of Tobacco Control (265KB PDF).
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