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Uneven implementation of FCTC articles impeding tobacco control
Islamabad
December 27, 2020
Islamabad : Two years have slipped by since the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global Strategy to Accelerate Tobacco Control 2019-2025 (GS2025). However, when it relaunched GS2025 last month, there were no signs of progress vis-a-vis implementation of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). What resonated, on the contrary, were ongoing failures in policy implementation.
Dr. Ehsan Latif, Vice President of Grant Management and Development at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has expressed these views while drawing attention to priority areas for smoking cessation in a recently published blog. He sees “uneven implementation of several FCTC articles” as being responsible for the WHO’s trajectory of failure in the domain of tobacco control.
By Harini Weerasekera:
In a series of blog articles on taxing tobacco, IPS has maintained that increasing tobacco taxation has undeniable health and fiscal benefits. At a juncture when government finances are tight, policy solutions such as taxing tobacco which can be leveraged to boost government revenue without threatening economic growth are essential. Such measures can be used to support additional pandemic-related spending in the coming years.
However, Sri Lanka’s 2021 Budget does not specify any tax increases on cigarettes. Instead, it proposes a simplification of taxes across a variety of sin goods and other goods. Specifically, Budget 2021 proposes to “improve the efficiency of tax collection through the introduction of an online-managed single special Goods and Service Tax (GST) in place of the various goods and service taxes and levies, imposed under multiple laws and institutions on alcohol, cigarettes, telecommunication, betting and gaming and vehicles”. Details