This chapter is a collection of country profiles for 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Subject to data availability, each country profile provides information on tobacco use prevalence, MPOWER measures, taxes and prices of the most sold brand of cigarettes, trends in retail prices of cigarettes by brand category, affordability of cigarettes, the design of tobacco excise taxes across tobacco products, tobacco tax reforms, tobacco excise tax revenue, the average excise tax revenue collected per pack of 20 cigarettes sold, and the change in tobacco tax policy indicators over time.
Tobacco Taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean
A Call for Tobacco Tax Reform