Economic Research

Given this there are three broad objectives of the study:

The first objective examines the direct as well as indirect costs of rising burden of diseases due to tobacco consumption at  household and  macro level against the economic benefits in terms of employment, revenue generation etc. The second objective intends to analyze the tax structure particularly the impact of increasing taxes on reducing consumption. Among other things this will discuss the tax rate for smoke and smokeless tobacco, impact of various exemptions provided to different forms of tobacco and its impact on production etc. The last objective is crucial as it proposes to create evidence on alternative cropping pattern and economic benefits which are equally profitable for discouraging farmers growing tobacco. Excluding farmers the market supply mechanism would also work for providing alternatives for traders etc involved in the production and supply chain.