Public Support forTobacco Price Increase

Health impacts of tobacco consumption in Indonesia worsen in recent years. Around 225,700 people died every year caused by tobacco consumption in Indonesia, of which 7.02% of them are women. Indonesia is known to one of the countries that contribute to a high smoking prevalence in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that the smoking prevalence in Indonesia would reach 45% by 2025 (Bilano et al., 2015). This projection is supported by other data that show the increasing number of smoking behaviour year by year. Data of the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) and the Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) found a significant increase in the prevalence of smokers age ≥15 years old from 27% in 1995 to 36.30% in 2013 of which 65% of them were men and 6.70% were female (Surbakti, 1995; NIHRD, 2013). In 2015, the smoking prevalence among men in Indonesia dramatically increased up to 76.20% based on the report of the Tobacco Atlas (Drope et al., 2018).