Youth are more sensitive to price changes in cigarettes than adults

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 115-124

  Ding, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; MARKET; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; TAX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING;

EID: 22244443694     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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