The project team of the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, working on the project "Accelerating Progression on Tobacco Taxation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries", which is implemented in cooperation with the Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Tobacconomics Program and the Johns Hopkins University (USA), marked this year's World No Tobacco Day, May 31. The marking of this important date in the fight against smoking was held at the Olympic Museum in Sarajevo, by holding a thematic discussion titled “Implementation of tobacco control policies in B&H”. The event gathered a large number of stakeholders from the government and non-governmental sectors, as well as other stakeholders in the field of tobacco control.
The thematic discussion itself was an opportunity to hold two thematic panels:
Progress of tobacco control policies in BiH Excise policy on tobacco and ratification of the protocol on the elimination of the illicit tobacco trade.On behalf of the project team of the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, the principal investigator prof. Dragan Gligoric also presented to the attendees the results of multiple studies conducted in the previous years by the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, in this domain. The results of research on the economic cost of smoking for B&H, as well as the conclusions of the latest research on the factors that influence the initiation of smoking among youth were presented. The event was an opportunity to once again underline the importance of tax policies as one of the key tools in the fight to reduce the prevalence and intensity of smoking.
Apart from the local organizations and institutions, representatives of the World Health Organization and the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina also took part in the thematic discussions.
The event was organized in cooperation with PROI and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The University of Banja Luka (UBL), Bosnia and Herzegovina, is part of a regional network of researchers in Southeastern Europe on tobacco taxation. UBL has been working in cooperation with the Tobacconomics program now at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) (previously housed at the University of Illinois Chicago, or UIC) to conduct economic research on tobacco taxation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. JHU is a partner of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. The views expressed in this document cannot be attributed to, nor do they represent, the views of JHU, UIC, or Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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