It has an even greater effect on reducing consumption in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and among youth.14 The WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) calls for higher taxes and prices for tobacco products in order to reduce tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.5 However, it is a relatively underused tobacco control measure,6 7 with, as of 2021, only 13% of the worlds population living in the 40 countries that meet the WHOs recommendation of taxing at 75% or greater of the retail price of the most popular cigarette brands.810 Colombia is one such country where excise taxes on tobacco products fall short of the 75% benchmark.9 It scored 3.38 out of 5 on the 2021 Tobacconomics cigarette tax scorecard which assesses countries cigarette tax policies in relation to widely accepted best practices.11 This score represents a considerable increase on the 2016 score, 2.38,12 but shows there is still room for substantial improvement, particularly in cigarette prices and the tax share of price

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Identifying treatments that improve IC may help reduce smoking and can potentially help with preventing relapse following when a person attempts to quit smoking, Froeliger said