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„Given the many uses of consumer price indices and the potential
inflationary impact of tobacco tax increases, some governments have developed
alternatives that exclude tobacco (and sometimes other goods) for some uses.
For example, since 1992, France has excluded tobacco products from the price
index used for adjusting minimum wages. Given its utility for indexing various
payments, some governments exclude prices for a variety of products they
consider unnecessary or inappropriate, including those for alcoholic beverages,
gambling, and tobacco. For example, since 1991, luxembourg has excluded tobacco
products, hard liquor, and ‘certain services closely linked to sliding wage
scales’ from its consumer price index. To date, however, while many countries
do report consumer price indices that exclude tobacco products, their most
widely used indices – including those used for indexation of wages, pension payments,
and other outlays – continue to include tobacco products. To the extent that
concerns about their impact on inflation are a barrier to tobacco tax
increases, excluding tobacco products from the basket of goods used in
developing key price indices would greatly reduce these concerns. In addition, some
have observed that the inclusion of tobacco products in key price indices results
in a distorted measure of price for many consumers, particularly in countries
where a small and declining minority of the population use these products. Likewise,
given that the weights used to compute price indices in many countries change
infrequently, the inflationary impact of tobacco product tax increases will be
overstated as consumption of these products falls in response to tax increases.
Finally, some have suggested that excluding tobacco products from price indices
would increase the public health impact of tobacco tax increases by providing
less of a cushion for users whose wages or benefit payments are indexed
(Alchin, 1995).“