Interventions to reduce tobacco consumption
Tobacco control interventions can be grouped into two categories: demand-side and supply-side interventions. Demand-side interventions such as price increases, advertising and promotion bans, and smoking restrictions are effective at reducing tobacco-attributable mortality and morbidity. While interventions to reduce demand for tobacco are likely to succeed, measures to reduce tobacco supply are less promising. A notable exception, however, is smuggling controls, which are an essential complement to demand-side interventions, preventing international smugglers from circumventing tobacco price increases.
Demand-side interventions
- Prices, taxes and revenues
- Advertising and promotion
- Consumer information
- Smoking restrictions
- Smoking cessation