Jha P, et al. - Researchers examined the upshot of a 50% increase in market prices of cigarettes on health, poverty, and financial protection in middle-income countries, totalling two billion men. Eligible candidates included 500 million male smokers. Additional health and financial gains to the poorest 20% than to the richest 20% of the population were yielded via higher prices of cigarettes. It was disclosed that the bottom income group would get 31% of the life years saved and 29% each of the averted disease costs and averted catastrophic health expenditures while paying only 10% of the additional taxes. Findings demonstrated that higher excise taxes supported the targets of the sustainable development goals on non-communicable diseases and poverty. It also conferred financial protection against illness.