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Busting industry myths on health taxes
Fact sheet
2025
English (PDF 160.78 KB)

Health-harming industries often sow doubts about the links between NCDs and risk factors, and the effectiveness of health policies including health taxes. They also feed fears about potential negative economic impacts of health policies in order to weaken, delay, or block their development and implementation. Most industry arguments, however, have been disproved or are not supported by evidence.