Rob Branston

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• 2025

  An assessment of proposals for reforming the European Union’s Tobacco Tax Directive

  López-Nicolás, Á., Branston, R. & Ross, H., 31 Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 137, 104724.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Tax Rate 50%
  • Price 50%
  • Tobacco Taxation 25%
  • Nutrition Policy 25%

• How has the tobacco industry passed tax changes through to consumers in 12 Sub-Saharan African countries?

  Sheikh, Z., Branston, J. R., van der Zee, K. & Gilmore, A., 2 Jan 2025, In: Tobacco Control. 34, p. 48-52 tc-2023-058054.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tobacco Industry 100%
  • Taxation 100%
  • Pricing Strategy 66%
  • Tax Increase 50%
  • Sales 33%
  3 Citations (SciVal)

• Tobacco Taxation in Spain: A tax laggard with a brighter possible future

  López-Nicolás, Á., Branston, J. R. & Ross, H., 31 Jan 2025, In: Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 27, 1, p. 46-53 ntae162.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tobacco Taxation 100%
  • Tobacco Tax 66%
  • Public Revenue 66%
  • Inflation 33%
• 2024

  Budget 2024: experts explain what it means for taxpayers, businesses, borrowers and the NHS: Good vaping measures – shame about the delay

  Branston, R., Kara, A., Burlinson, A., Ingham, H., Lowe, J., Sivey, P. & Roy-Mukherjee, S., 6 Mar 2024, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• Exploring the Value in Variations of the Relative Income Price (RIP) for Calculating Cigarette Affordability: An Illustration using Malaysia

  Kunji Koya, R., Branston, J. R. & Gallagher, A. W., 15 Nov 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 11, e0313695.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Affordability 100%
  • Price 100%
  • Wealth 22%
  • Tobacco Tax 11%
  • Tax Increase 11%

• Going "Super Value" in New Zealand: Cigarette pricing strategies during a period of sustained annual excise tax increases

  Gendall, P., Gendall, K., Branston, J. R., Edwards, R., Wilson, N. & Hoek, J., 20 Feb 2024, In: Tobacco Control. 33, p. 240-246 057232.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Pricing Strategy 100%
  • Tax Increase 100%
  • Excise Tax 100%
  • Annuals 100%
  • Cigarettes 100%
  3 Citations (SciVal)

• Improving Estimates of the Illicit Cigarette Trade through Collaboration: Lessons from Two Studies of Malaysia

  Bin Kunji Koya, W., Branston, J. R., Gallagher, A. W. A., Bui, W. K. T., Ross, H. & Mohamed Nor, N., 17 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Tobacco Control. 6 p., 23058333.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Malaysia 100%
  • Taxation 100%
  • Sales 25%
  2 Citations (SciVal)
• 2023

  Corporate communication of the relative health risks of IQOS through a webchat service

  Braznell, S., Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A., 1 Aug 2023, In: Tobacco Control. 32, e2, p. e205-e211

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Consumer 100%
  • Health Hazard 100%
  • Cigarettes 100%
  • Smoking 50%
  • Patient Referral 50%
  4 Citations (SciVal)

  2 Downloads (Pure)

• How has the tobacco industry passed tax changes through to consumers in 12 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries?

  Sheikh, Z., Branston, J. R., van der Zee, K. & Gilmore, A., 26 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

  Open Access

  File
  24 Downloads (Pure)

• Is Spain lagging behind, and would the new EU Tobacco Tax Directive help?

  Ross, H., López-Nicolás, Á. & Branston, R., 26 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

• Perceived regulatory compliance in micro-firms: the case of English accommodation providers

  Betton, M. E., Branston, J. R. & Tomlinson, P. R., 11 Apr 2023, In: Journal of General Management. 48, 3, p. 293-306 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Industry 100%
  • Large Firm 100%

• Promoting convergence and closing gaps using affordability based minimum taxes: an illustration using the European Union Tobacco Tax Directive

  Branston, J. R. & López-Nicolás, Á., 17 Aug 2023, In: Tobacco Control. 32, 5, p. 667-671 5 p., 056960.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Affordability 100%
  • Price Convergence 25%
  • Tobacco Taxation 12%
  1 Citation (SciVal)

• Reflections on Seminar Attendance, Lecture Capture, and Other Factor Impacts on Postgraduate Student Performance

  Betton, M. & Branston, J. R., 7 Feb 2023, In: Advances in Economics Education. 1, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Prior experience 100%
  • Student Performance 100%
  • Formative Assessment 100%
  14 Downloads (Pure)

• Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry

  Branston, J. R. & Tomlinson, P. R., 3 Jul 2023, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Sewage Treatment 100%
  • tube 100%
  • Industry 100%

• Taxes & Transborder Commercialization: Improving EU Tobacco Taxation: The Broad Context

  Branston, R., 26 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

  File
  30 Downloads (Pure)

• The not-so-bright side of recent tobacco control policies in Spain: A cautionary tale for tax policy

  López-Nicolás, Á., Ross, H. & Branston, R., 27 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• The politics of pricing: the relative affordability of cigarettes in Lebanon during the 2019 financial crisis

  Alaouie, H., Branston, J. R., Bloomfield, M. J. & Salti, N., 26 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  Open Access

  File
  5 Downloads (Pure)

• The Price We Pay: Six Industry Pricing Strategies That Undermine Life-Saving Tobacco Taxes

  Sheikh, Z. & Branston, J. R., 20 Feb 2023, STOP. Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products. 11 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Industry 100%
  • Pricing Strategy 100%
  • Taxation 100%
  • Tax Increase 60%

• Tobacco industry pricing strategies for single cigarettes and multi-stick packs after excise tax increases in Colombia

  Sheikh, Z., Branston, J. R., Llorente, B., Norman, M. & Gilmore, A., 13 Dec 2023, In: Tobacco Control. 33, 1, p. 59-66 8 p., 057333.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Pricing Strategy 100%
  • Tobacco Industry 100%
  • Tax Increase 100%
  • Excise Tax 100%
  • Pricing 100%
  5 Citations (SciVal)

• Tobacco Industry pricing strategies in response to excise tax policies: a systematic review.

  Sheikh, Z., Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A., 20 Feb 2023, In: Tobacco Control. 056630.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Systematic Review 100%
  • Pricing Strategy 100%
  • Tobacco Industry 100%
  • Excise Tax 100%
  • Fiscal Policy 100%
  35 Citations (SciVal)
• 2022

  Actors, knowledge and path transformations in a declining cluster

  Fai, F., Tomlinson, P. R. & Branston, J. R., 31 Oct 2022, In: European Urban and Regional Studies. 29, 4, p. 498-514 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Product Offering 100%
  • Knowledge-Sharing 100%
  • Cluster Dynamic 100%
  • Policy Suggestion 100%
  • Advanced Material 100%
  9 Citations (SciVal)

• Big Tobacco, Big Avoidance: PMI's questionable financial flows

  Rowell, A. & Branston, J. R., 24 Feb 2022, University of Bath. 2 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

• Big Tobacco, Big Avoidance: What role do BAT’s UK subsidiaries play in facilitating tax avoidance?

  Rowell, A. & Branston, J. R., 24 Feb 2022, University of Bath. 8 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

• Measuring Malaysia’s Illicit Tobacco Trade: An Excise Tax Gap Analysis

  Bin Kunji Koya, W., Branston, J. R. & Gallagher, A., 28 Sept 2022, In: Journal of Illicit Economies and Development. 4, 1, p. 58-70 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Malaysia 100%
  • Excise Tax 100%
  • Tobacco Consumption 20%
  • Tobacco Industry 14%
  4 Citations (SciVal)

• Plan to slash smoking in England is backed by the evidence – but it could go even further

  Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A., 10 Jun 2022, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• Promoting convergence and closing gaps: a blueprint for the revision of the European Union Tobacco Tax Directive

  López-Nicolás, Á. & Branston, J. R., 14 Dec 2022, In: Tobacco Control. 32, 1, p. 30-35 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Price Level 16%
  • Econometric Model 16%
  • Price Convergence 16%
  4 Citations (SciVal)

• The Lebanese Regie state-owned tobacco monopoly: Lessons to inform monopoly-focused endgame strategies

  Alaouie, H., Branston, J. R. & Bloomfield, M. J., 31 Dec 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 1 p., 1632.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Monopoly 100%
  • Lebanon 100%
  • Incentives 11%
  2 Citations (SciVal)

• Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation

  Scollo, M. & Branston, J. R., 3 Mar 2022, In: Tobacco Control. 31, 2, p. 235-240 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Pricing 100%
  • Fiscal Policy 80%
  • Tax Increase 60%
  • Taxation 40%
  7 Citations (SciVal)

  67 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and SPECTRUM representation to HM Treasury’s Spending Review (SR21) and Budget

  Arnott, D., Featherstone, H., Branston, J. R., Gilmore, A. & Langley, T. E., 30 Sept 2021, Action on Smoking and Health.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  File
  112 Downloads (Pure)

• Chapter 7: Economics of tobacco

  Langley, T. E., Arnott, D., Branston, J. R., Dockrell, M., Gillespie, D., Hiscock, R., Pryce, R. & Wilson, L. B., 29 Apr 2021, Smoking and health 2021: A coming of age for tobacco control?: A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians. Agrawal (Chair), S., Arnott, D., Ashcroft, R., Bauld, L., Britton, J., Coleman, T., Cuthbertson, L., Dockrell, M., Gilmore, A., Hopkinson, N., Jarvis, M., Langley, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., McNeill, A., Preston, W. & Ratschen, E. (eds.). London: Royal College of Physicians, p. 82-94 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter

  Open Access

• Cigarette-like cigarillo introduced to bypass taxation, standardised packaging, minimum pack sizes, and menthol ban in the UK

  Branston, J. R., Hiscock, R., Silver, K., Arnott, D. & Gilmore, A., 21 Oct 2021, In: Tobacco Control. 30, 6, p. 708-711 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  18 Citations (SciVal)

  1007 Downloads (Pure)

• CORRECTION: Tobacco industry strategies undermine government tax policy: evidence from commercial data

  Hiscock, R., Branston, J. R., McNeill, A., Hitchman, S. C., Partos, T. R. & Gilmore, A., 8 Dec 2021, In: Tobacco Control. 30, e2, p. e169-e170 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• CORRECTION: UK tobacco price increases: driven by industry or public health?

  Hiscock, R., Branston, J. R., Partos, T. R., McNeill, A., Hitchman, S. C. & Gilmore, A., 8 Dec 2021, In: Tobacco Control. 30, e2, p. e171-e172 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Corrigendum to: The failure of the UK to tax adequately tobacco company profits

  Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A. B., 7 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Public Health. 43, 2, p. 433-433 1 p., fdz110.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tax Rate 100%
  • Corporate Income Tax 66%

• Industry profits continue to drive the tobacco epidemic: a new endgame approach for tobacco control?

  Branston, J. R., 11 Jun 2021, In: Tobacco Prevention and Cessation. 2021, 7, 45.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  Open Access

  File
  9 Citations (SciVal)

  117 Downloads (Pure)

• Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of standardised packaging and Minimum Excise Tax on tobacco sales and industry revenue in the UK

  Hiscock, R., Augustin, N. H., Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A. B., 30 Sept 2021, In: Tobacco Control. 30, 5, p. 515-522 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Smoking 100%
  • Cigarettes 100%
  10 Citations (SciVal)

• Owner-Manager Perceptions of Regulation and Micro-Firm Performance: an exploratory view

  Betton, M. E., Branston, J. R. & Tomlinson, P. R., 1 Jan 2021, In: Competition and Change. 25, 1, p. 73-96 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Legislation 100%
  • Firm Performance 100%
  • Performance Criterion 100%
  • Policy Recommendation 100%
  • Positive Information 100%
  10 Citations (SciVal)

  71 Downloads (Pure)

• SFP position paper: Tobacco taxes save lives: Smoke Free Partnership position paper on the revision of the EU Tobacco Tax Directive 2011/64/EU

  López-Nicolás, Á., Stoklosa, M., Branston, J. R., Ross, H., Joossens, L., Arnott, D., Toma, A., Kubinschi, I. & Arnaudova, N., 23 Jun 2021, 28 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Cigarettes 100%
  • Nutrition Policy 27%
  • Excise Tax 20%

• What does Brexit mean for UK tobacco control?

  Branston, J. R., Arnott, D. & Gallagher, A., 16 Jun 2021, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 92, 103044.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • United Kingdom 100%
  • European Union 77%
  • Northern Ireland 33%
  • Ireland 11%
  • Control Measure 11%
  8 Citations (SciVal)

  338 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  ASH response to the Treasury Committee inquiry on tax after coronavirus

  Arnott, D., Titmarsh, R. & Branston, J. R., 8 Sept 2020

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• Big Tobacco, Big Avoidance

  Vermeulen, S., Dillen, M., Branston, J. R., Nieto Solis, S., el Khannoussi, N. & Metze, D. M. (Editor), 5 Nov 2020, University of Bath.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

• Big Tobacco, Big Tax Avoidance

  Rowell, A., Branston, J. R. & Sandberg, E., 5 Nov 2020, STOP. Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• Brexit is an opportunity to stop Britons smoking

  Branston, J. R., Gallagher, A. & Arnott, D., 4 Dec 2020, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• Impact of tobacco tax increases and industry pricing on smoking behaviours and inequalities: a mixed-methods study

  Partos, T. R., Hiscock, R., Gilmore, A. B., Branston, J. R., Hitchman, S. & McNeill, A., Apr 2020, In: Public Health Research. 8 , 6, 174 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tobacco Tax 100%
  • Industry 100%
  • Tobacco Industry 100%
  • Tax Increase 100%
  • Pricing 100%

• Response from the University of Bath Tobacco Control Research Group to HM Government’s “consultation on the potential approach to duty- and tax-free goods arising from the UK’s new relationship with the EU”.

  Branston, D. J. R. & Gallagher, A., 20 May 2020, 7 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  File
  79 Downloads (Pure)

• Standardised packaging, Minimum Excise Tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing

  Hiscock, R., Augustin, N., Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A., 13 Feb 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 2, e0228069.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Pricing 100%
  • Excise Tax 100%
  • Cigarettes 100%
  • Tobacco Industry 42%
  19 Citations (SciVal)

• The Failure of the UK to Tax Adequately Tobacco Company Profits

  Branston, J. R. & Gilmore, A., 1 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 42, 1, p. 69-76 8 p., fdz004.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Corporate Taxation 100%
  • Corporate Income Tax 100%
  • Nutrition Policy 100%
  • Tax Avoidance 50%
  • Taxation 50%
  9 Citations (SciVal)

  156 Downloads (Pure)

• Trade-Association Endorsements, Postal & Online Responses, and Other Factors Affecting Response Rates: Reflections on a Survey of Micro-Firms

  Betton, M. E., Branston, J. R. & Tomlinson, P. R., 17 Sept 2020, In: Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods (EJBRM). 18, 1, p. 56-69 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Trade Associations 100%
  • Meta-Analysis 100%
  • Legislation 33%
  • English 33%
  1 Citation (SciVal)

  18 Downloads (Pure)

• World: Big Tobacco, Big Tax Avoidance (in worldwide news and comment section, overseen by Martia Hefler and John Baker)

  Branston, J. R. & Rowell, A., 16 Dec 2020, In: Tobacco Control. 30, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2019

  Exploiting a low tax system: non-tax-induced cigarette price increases in Taiwan 2011-2016

  Gao, W., Sanna, M., Branston, J. R., Chiou, H.-Y., Chen, Y.-H., Wu, A. & Wen, C.-P., 31 Dec 2019, In: Tobacco Control. 28, e2, p. e126-e132 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Taxation 100%
  • Tax System 100%
  • Tobacco Tax 50%
  • Pricing Strategy 50%
  • Tobacco Industry 50%
  9 Citations (SciVal)

  44 Downloads (Pure)