To be fully effective however, they must be coupled curbing advertising which has a major influence on tobacco consumption. In addition, tobacco taxation should not be perceived as just another source of revenue for the states. Unless legislation is passed to ban or restrict tobacco advertisement, supportive measures must also be taken to help the media, art and sports institutions overcome due economic loss thus incurred. For example, we should also use the media more activity with our health promotion campaign. Here again, revenue collected from tobacco taxation can be put to good use.
Tobacco taxes are relatively easy to administer in most countries.
The supply of tobacco products is controlled by only a few companies. Taxes can easily be collected at the point where tobacco products are released by these companies. In countries where imported tobacco dominates the market, some of the money that would otherwise leave the country as appropriated profit can and should be used to benefit local citizens. Tobacco tax policies will provide much needed revenue to help countries, particularly developing countries to finance their social and economic development and the well-being of their people a generation later. These benefits will become further apparent and increased as fewer lives are lost prematurely because of tobacco use.