Projects
Building Research and Capacity on the Economic Policy-Tobacco Control Nexus in Africa
The Political Economy of Tobacco Farming in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Publications
Cautionary tales of tax incentives for cigarette makers from Zambia, 2019 Labonte, R. et al.
Consequences of policy incoherence: how Zambia’s post‑CTC investment policy stimulated tobacco production, R. Labonte etal.
Lencucha, A., Reddy, S., Labonté, R., Drope, J., Magati, P., Goma, F., Zulu, R. and Makoka, D. “Global tobacco control and economic norms: an analysis of normative commitments in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia,” Health Policy and Planning (2018):1-8, https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy005/4833987?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Makoka D, A Appau, R Lencucha, J Drope. 2016. Farm-Level Economics of Tobacco Production in Malawi. Lilongwe: Centre for Agricultural Research and Development and Atlanta: American Cancer Society.
Goma, F, J Drope, R Zulu, Q Li, GChelwa, R Labonté, J Banda. 2017. “The Economics of Tobacco Farming in Zambia” (Revised version) Lusaka: University of Zambia School of Medicine and Atlanta: American Cancer Society.
Lencucha, R., Labonté, R., and Drope, J. “Rhetoric and the Law, or the Law of Rhetoric: How countries oppose novel tobacco control at the WTO,” Social Science and Medicine.
Magati P, Li Q, Drope J, Lencucha R, Labonté, R, 2016 The Economics of Tobacco Farming in Kenya. International Institute for Legislative Affairs and American Cancer Society, Nairobi
Other tobacco farmer surveys here: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@editorial/documents/document/acspc-047624.pdf
Labonté, R. and Lencucha, R. “Regulating Electronic Cigarettes: Between Precaution and Harm Reduction,” Canadian Medical Association Journal. CMAJ cmaj.150347, May 11, 2015.
Lencucha, R., Labonté, R. and Drope, J. “Tobacco plain packaging: too hot for regulatory chill,” The Lancet Vol 385, p.1723, March 2 2015.
Lencucha, R., Drope, J., Labonté, R., Goma, F. and Zulu, R. “Investment Incentives and the Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Evidence from Zambia” Tobacco Control July 6, 2015.
Presentations
Labonté, R. and Lencucha, R. Two Levels of Rhetoric on Tobacco and Health, The Effects of International Economic Policy Making on Tobacco Control, 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 20, 2015.
Goma, F., Zulu, R., Labonté, R., Lencucha, R., Drope, J. Governance Challenges at the Intersection of Tobacco Control and Trade Policy, The Effects of International Economic Policy Making on Tobacco Control, 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 20, 2015.