Combustible cigarettes cost less to use than e-cigarettes: global evidence and tax policy implications

Liber, Alex; Drope, Jeffrey; Stokłosa, Michał

doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052874

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“…Online supplementary file shows that like earlier findings on e-cigarettes,5 the UK has the shortest payback periods for HTP devices at 35 days in 2016 and 32 days in 2017 for PMI’s device. This seems to be a function of high cigarette prices.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…To calculate the cost of using HTPs relative to combusted cigarettes, I modify the payback period calculation measuring the relative prices of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes introduced in a previous study 5. The payback period is the number of days a pack-a-day smoker would have to exclusively use HTPs to recoup the cost of buying the heating device.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Heated tobacco products and combusted cigarettes: comparing global prices and taxes

Liber

2018

Tob Control

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BackgroundHeated tobacco products (HTPs) have received excise tax rates that are lower than combusted cigarettes in most of the countries in which the products are sold as tobacco companies claimed their purported reduced risk products deserved such light touch treatment. This study sought to determine if HTPs are cheaper to use than combusted cigarettes when the cost of purchasing an expensive heating device upfront was considered.Methods and DataProduct price data for tobacco heating devices, as well as cobranded heated tobacco and combusted cigarettes for 2014–2017 for 34 countries was obtained from Euromonitor International.ResultsOnly in 17 of 46 country-year cases with adequate data were HTPs less expensive to use than combusted cigarettes over a year.DiscussionThe tax advantages being given to HTPs may instead of providing a price signal to a consumer looking to switch, be providing a profit signal to tobacco companies to switch over to selling more HTPs and fewer combusted cigarettes. The implications of these dynamics for public health are unclear.

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Heated tobacco products and combusted cigarettes: comparing global prices and taxes

Liber

2018

Tob Control

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“…Alongside the capacity of e-cigarettes to deliver a user-experience that closely approximates smoking, there are a range of other factors that may impact upon the likelihood of smokers’ switching to reduced harm products including variations in the price of these devices in comparison to the price of combustibles [12,13]; critical media and scientific comment on the use of e-cigarettes [14,15]; the operation of local banning orders restricting the use of e-cigarettes in certain locations [16]; the reactions of other people to the visible use of these devices and whether they are seen as stigmatising [17]; and the perceptions of these devices by smokers and others [18]. …”

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Why Don’t More Smokers Switch to Using E-Cigarettes: The Views of Confirmed Smokers

McKeganey¹,

Dickson²

2017

IJERPH

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Whilst e-cigarettes have been characterised by Public Health England as being around 95% less harmful than combustible tobacco products, only a minority of current smokers (around 16% within the UK) are using these devices. In this paper we report the results of an online survey of 650 smokers in contact with a smokers’ rights group in the UK. A total of 91% of the smokers surveyed were smoking on a daily basis. Fifty nine percent reported having used electronic nicotine delivery systems, the majority of whom reported having used e-cigarettes. Those smokers that had not used these devices principally explained this in terms of the pleasure they derived from smoking. The features smokers’ liked most about e-cigarette had to do with the range of settings in which they could be used, the lack of an offensive smell associated with their use, the available flavours and the reduced level of harm. The elements which smokers liked least about e-cigarettes had to do with the vaping experience, the technology, the chemical nature of e-liquids and the complex technology that was associated with these devices. If a greater number of smokers are to be encouraged to take up e-cigarettes, it will be necessary not only to convey accurate information on the relative harm of these devices (compared to combustible tobacco products), but to ensure that they are able to be used in a wider range of settings than those within which smoking can currently occur and that the vaping experience more closely resembles the smoking experience.

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“…Using this comparable unit standard, such that one pack of cigarettes was considered to represent the equivalent level of consumption as one disposable, 3.55 mL of e-liquid or 3.55 mL of cartridge,19 three types of price ratios were generated with standardised cigarette price as the base: price ratios of disposables to cigarettes, e-liquids to cigarettes and cartridges to cigarettes.…”

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Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey

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Combustible cigarettes cost less to use than e-cigarettes: global evidence and tax policy implications

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Heated tobacco products and combusted cigarettes: comparing global prices and taxes

Heated tobacco products and combusted cigarettes: comparing global prices and taxes

Why Don’t More Smokers Switch to Using E-Cigarettes: The Views of Confirmed Smokers

Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey

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