Publications

G. Emmanuel Guindon, Umaima Abbas, Riya Trivedi, Sophiya Garasia, Sydney Johnson, Rijo M. John, "Socioeconomic differences in the impact of prices and taxes on tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries–A systematic review", PLOS Glob Public Health, 2023 Vol 3(9)

Sharma N, Nazar GP, Chugh A, Chopra M, Mdege ND, Rijo M. John, Arora M, Karan A, "Socio-Economic Status Differences in Changing Affordability of Tobacco Products from 2011-2012 to 2018-2019 in India", Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2023 Vol 25 (4), Pp 709-717 

Estelle Dauchy & Rijo M John, "The Effect of Price and Tax Policies on the Decision to Smoke or Use Smokeless Tobacco in India", Prevention Science, 2022 Vol 23, Pp 1101-1114 

Rijo M John & Estelle Dauchy, "Healthcare costs attributable to secondhand smoke exposure among Indian adults", Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2022 Vol 24, Pp 1478-86 

Rijo M John, Fikru T. Tullu, Rachita Gupta. Price elasticity and affordability of aerated or sugar-sweetened beverages in India: implications for taxation", BMC Public Health 2022 Vol 22 (1) 

Gaurang P. Nazar, Nitika Sharma, Aastha Chugh, S M Sonnet, Mohammad Abdullah, Lina S Lina, Noreen D. Mdege, Rijo M. John, Rumana Huque, Monika Arora "Impact of tobacco price and taxation on affordability and consumption of tobacco products in the Southeast Asia Region: a systematic review", Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2021

Rijo M John; Praveen Sinha, Vineet Gill Munish, Fikru T Tullu, "Economic Costs of Diseases and Deaths Attributable to Tobacco Use in India, 2017–2018", Nicotine & Tobacco Research , 2021 Vol 23 (2), PP 294-301. 

Abdullah, S.M.; Huque, R.; Bauld, L.; Ross, H.; Gilmore, A.; John, R.M.; Dobbie, F.; Siddiqi, K, "Estimating the Magnitude of Illicit Cigarette Trade in Bangladesh: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study", International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Vol 17 (13), PP 4791. 

Rijo M John, Estelle Dauchy, "Trends in affordability of tobacco products before and after the transition to GST in India", BMJ Tobacco Control, 2020.

Rijo M John, Estelle Dauchy, Mark Goodchild, "Estimated impact of the GST on tobacco products in India", Tobacco Control, 2018. BMJ Tobacco Control, 2019 Vol 28 (5), PP 506-512.  

Rijo M John "Economic costs of diseases and deaths attributable to bidi smoking in India, 2017", BMJ Tobacco Control, 2019 Vol 28 (5), PP 513-518

Ravi Mehrotra, Amit Yadav, Dhirendra N Sinha, Mark Parascandola, Rijo M John, Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf, Nigar Nargis,  Dorothy K Hatsukami, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Kurt Straif, Kamran Siddiqi, Prakash C Gupta, "Smokeless tobacco control in 180 countries across the globe: call to action for full implementation of WHO FCTC measures", The Lancet Oncology, 2019 Vol 20 (4), PPe208-e217. 

Rijo M John, Amit Yadav, Dhirendra N Sinha, "Smokeless Tobacco Taxation: Lessons from Southeast Asia", Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2018 Vol 148 (1) PP 46-55

Daniel Owusu, Ke-Sheng Wang, Megan Quinn, Jocelyn Aibangbee, Rijo M John, Hadii M. Mamudu. "Health-Care Provider Intervention and Utilization of Cessation Assistance in 12 Low-and-Middle Income Countries", Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2018

Hadii M Mamudu, Joshua Yang, Rijo M John. "Incorporating a Structural Approach to Reducing the Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases", Globalization and Health, 2018 Vol. 14 (66) P 703.

Rijo M John, Hana Ross, "Sales of Illicit Cigarettes in India: Findings from a Retail Survey”. BMJ Tobacco Control, Vol. 27(6) pp 684-688

Rijo M John. "Tobacco taxation under the goods and Services Tax regime – addressing the challenges", Health for the Millions, 2017 Vol. 43 (1 & 2) Pp 34-36.

Veeranki SP, Rijo M John, Abdallah Ibrahim, Divya Pillendla, James F. Thrasher, Daniel Owusu, Ahmed E. O. Ouma, Hadii M. Mamudu. "Age of smoking initiation among adolescents in Africa”, International Journal of Public Health, 2016 Vol. 62 (1) Pp 63-72

Daniel Owusu, Hadii M. Mamudu, Rijo M John, Abdallah Ibrahim, Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma, Veeranki SP. "Never-smoking adolescents' exposure to secondhand smoke in Africa”, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016 Vol. 51 (6) Pp 983-98.

Hadii M. Mamudu, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Rijo M John, Kioko D., Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma. "Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adolescents in West Africa", American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 105(9) Pp 1823-1830, 2015

Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Hadii M. Mamudu, Rijo M John, Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma. "Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among school-going adolescents in Madagascar", Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol. 5(3) Pp 239-47, 2015

Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Hadii M. Mamudu, Shimin Zheng, Rijo M John, James Anderson, Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma. "Secondhand smoke exposure among never-smoking youth in 168 countries", Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 56. No.2, Pp 167-73, 2015

Hadii M. Mamudu, Rijo M John, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma. “The odd man out in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the tobacco use behavior in   Madagascar”, BMC Public Health, Vol.13. No.1, P 856-66, 2013

Hadii M. Mamudu, Veeranki Sreenivas, Rijo M John. “Tobacco use among school-going adolescents (11-17 years) in Ghana”, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Vo.15. No.8, Pp 1355-64, 2013

Rijo M John, Hadii M. Mamudu, Alex Liber “Socioeconomic implications of tobacco use in Ghana”, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Vol.14. No.10, Pp 1205-12, 2012

Rijo M John, Hana Ross, Evan Blecher “Tobacco expenditures and its implications for household resource allocation in Cambodia”, BMJ Tobacco Control, Vol. 21 Pp 341-46, 2012 

Prabhat Jha, Emmanuel Guindon, Renu Joseph, Arindam Nandi, Rijo M John, Kavita Rao, Frank J. Chaloupka, Jagdish Kaur, Prakash C. Gupta, M. Govinda Rao. "A rational taxation system of bidis and cigarettes to reduce smoking deaths in India". Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 46 No.42, Pp 44-51, October 2011

Rijo M John, Hai-Yen Sung, Wendy Max, Hana Ross, “Counting 15 Million More Poor in India, Thanks to Tobacco”, BMJ Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, No. 5, Pp 349-352, Aug 2011

Rijo M John, Hana Ross, “Economic Value of Disability Adjusted Life Years Lost to Cancers: 2008”, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol.28, No. 15s, 2010

Rijo M John, Hai-Yen Sung, and Wendy Max, “Economic Cost of Tobacco use in India,    2004” BMJ Tobacco Control, Vol. 18, No. 2, Pp 138-43, 2009

Rijo M John, “Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco Products in India” Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 23 No. 3, Pp 200-9, 2008

Rijo M John, “Crowding-out Effect of Tobacco Expenditure and Its Implications on Household Resource Allocation in India” Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 66 No.6, Pp 1356-67, 2008

Rijo M John and Stanton Glantz, “It is Time to Make Smokefree Environments Work in India”, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 125 No.5, Pp 599-603, May 2007

Rijo M John, “Household’s Tobacco Consumption Decisions: Evidence from India”, Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 1  No.1 Pp 101-126, January 2006

Rijo M John and Rohit Mutatkar, “Statewise Estimates of Poverty among Religious Groups In India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 No.13, Pp 1337-1344, March 2005 

Rijo M John, "Tobacco Consumption Patterns and Its Health Implications in India". Health Policy, Vol. 71 No.2, Pp 213-222, Feb 2005

Hana Ross and Rijo M John. “Excise Tax Policy and Cigarette Use in High-Burden Asian Countries”, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2023

Rijo M John, Grieve Chelwa, Violeta Vulovic, Frank Chaloupka. “Updated Toolkit on Using Household Expenditure Surveys for Research in the Economics of Tobacco Control”, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023

Rijo M John, Mark Goodchild, Sarit K. Rout, "Economics of Tobacco Control in India", 2022 

Rijo M John, Grieve Chelwa, Violeta Vulovic, Frank Chaloupka. “A Toolkit on Using Household Expenditure Surveys for Economics of Tobacco Control Research”, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019.

Rijo M John, Amit Yadav “Price and tax measures on SLT” Chapter 2.1, Pp 11-28 in Mehrotra R, Sinha DN, Szilagyi T. Global smokeless tobacco control policies and their implementation, WHO FCTC Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco, ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, India, 2017.

Rijo M John. “Economics of Tobacco Control” Chapter 13, Pp 143-154 in Sonu Goyal, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Rana J Sing, eds., “Tobacco Control-A Module for Public Health Professionals”. PGIMER, 2016.

Rijo M John, Rout S K, Kumar B R, Arora M. "Economic Burden of Tobacco Related Diseases in India". Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. New Delhi. 2014 May. 

Burki SJ, Pasha AG, Pasha HA, Rijo M John, Jha P, Baloch AA, Kamboh GN, Cherukupalli    R, Chaloupka FJ. “The Economics of Tobacco and  Tobacco Taxation in Pakistan” Paris: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 2013.   

Rijo M John, R. Kavitha Rao, M. Govinda Rao et al. “The Economics of Tobacco and  Tobacco Taxation in India” Paris: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung  Diseases, 2010. 

Rijo M John, Hana Ross “The Global Economic Cost of Cancer”, 2010   

Rijo M John. “Global efforts to combat smoking: an economic evaluation of smoking control policies" Journal of Public Health, Vol.30 No. 4, Pp 513, 2008 (Book Review)

Rijo M John, “Ban on Tobacco: How Useful?” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 No 22 May 29, 2004 

Rijo M John and SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu "Tax ‘HFSS’ foods, view it as a public health imperative", The Hindu, 20 Dec 2023

Rijo M John, "Revisit the tax treatment of tobacco products", The Hindu, 30 Jan 2023

Rijo M John, "Revive tax increases, stub out tobacco product use", The Hindu, 9 March 2022

Rijo M John, "Extinguishing the tobacco industry’s main narrative", The Hindu, 7 Jan 2022

Rijo M John, "Low tobacco tax, poor health", The Hindu, 9 Dec 2021

Rijo M John, "Kerala's rising COVID-19 cases explained", The Hindu, 28 Aug 2021

Rijo M John, "Why Kerala's topping COVID-19 charts? ICMR serosurvey provides missing link", Onmanorama, 1 Aug 2021

Rijo M John, "Why Is Kerala Reporting So Many More COVID-19 Cases Than Other Indian States?", The Wire, 26 July 2021

Rijo M John, "Coronavirus | Testing and the importance of low positivity rate", The Hindu, 16 May 2021

Rijo M John, "Every life lost is a loss to the country", Rediff.com, 7 May 2021

Rijo M John, "കുത്തിവെപ്പ് കൂട്ടിയേ പറ്റൂ", Mathrubhumi, 19 April 2021

Rijo M John, "The peak could be premature", The Indian Express, 10 November 2020

Rijo M John, "ടെസ്റ്റുകള്‍ കുറച്ചതെന്തിന്? ദീര്‍ഘവീക്ഷണവും ജാഗ്രതയുമില്ല; വലിയ വില കൊടുക്കേണ്ടിവരും", Malayala Manorama, 20 October 2020.

Rijo M John, "Bidis will smoke out the poor, for sure", The Hindu Business Line, 1 November 2016. 

Rijo M John, "GST regime should tax cigarettes more", The Hindu Business Line, 22 August 2016. 

Rijo M John, "Taxing Tobacco", Ideas for India, 9 December 2014.