{"id":36256,"date":"2014-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxation.digitaladvocacycenter.com\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:50:28","slug":"a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco is cheap and widely available in Senegal. Low prices only aggravate the health system\u2019s woes: Price is the key determinant of tobacco use, and more people smoking means more getting sick. Despite an apparent willingness to battle Big Tobacco over smoking restrictions and new tobacco control legislation, Senegal hasn\u2019t moved to increase tobacco taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price is the key determinant of tobacco use, and more people smoking means more people getting sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[803],"tags":[],"networks":[],"language":[],"multichannel":[],"audience":[],"other":[],"phase":[],"region":[83],"country":[286],"featured":[],"campaigns":[],"issue":[761],"policy":[],"types":[817],"phases":[837],"class_list":["post-36256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles","region-africa","country-senegal","issue-taxation","types-news-articles","phases-the-problem"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Price is the key determinant of tobacco use, and more people smoking means more people getting sick.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ctfkdac\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ctfkdac\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ctfkdac\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a\"},\"headline\":\"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":66,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"News Articles\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/\",\"name\":\"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids\",\"description\":\"Digital Advocacy Center\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a\",\"name\":\"ctfkdac\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"ctfkdac\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/ctfkdac\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids","og_description":"Price is the key determinant of tobacco use, and more people smoking means more people getting sick.","og_url":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/","og_site_name":"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids","article_published_time":"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00","author":"ctfkdac","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ctfkdac"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/"},"author":{"name":"ctfkdac","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a"},"headline":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage","datePublished":"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/"},"wordCount":66,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["News Articles"],"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/","url":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/","name":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-27T20:50:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Powerful Pair: Tobacco Taxes for Universal Health Coverage"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/","name":"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids","description":"Digital Advocacy Center","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5f321136044391ce3e586af562b06a","name":"ctfkdac","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcee8c94fb99de733c3b48394f5f9c54cede389bbb8213f88c541ab60dbf4a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"ctfkdac"},"url":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/author\/ctfkdac\/"}]}},"toolset-meta":{"for-article-posts":{"wpcf-article-url":{"type":"url","raw":"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/a-powerful-pair-tobacco-taxes-for-universal-health-coverage-83582"},"wpcf-source":{"type":"textfield","raw":"Devex"},"wpcf-source-url":{"type":"url","raw":"https:\/\/www.devex.com"}},"for-sample-posts-only":{"socialmedia-url":{"type":"url","raw":""},"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"source-url":{"type":"url","raw":""}},"sms-fields":{"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"file-upload":{"type":"url","raw":""},"pdf-fallback":{"type":"file","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"test-field":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"facts":{"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"source-url":{"type":"url","raw":""},"file-upload":{"type":"url","raw":""},"scribd-url-facts":{"type":"url","raw":""}},"video":{"video-link":{"type":"url","raw":""},"image":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"source-url":{"type":"url","raw":""}},"messaging-and-sample-plans":{"file-upload":{"type":"url","raw":""},"pdf-fallback":{"type":"file","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"scribd-url":{"type":"url","raw":"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/430234411\/A-Powerful-Pair-Tobacco-Taxes-for-Universal-Health-Coverage-Devex"}},"image-posts":{"image":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"source":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"source-url":{"type":"url","raw":""}},"password-protection":{"password-protected":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"0"}},"featured-post":{"featured-post":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"0"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36280,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36256\/revisions\/36280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"networks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/networks?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"multichannel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/multichannel?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/other?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"phase","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phase?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"campaigns","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"policy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"phases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaladvocacycenter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phases?post=36256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}