Limiting youth access to tobacco: Comparing the long-term health impacts of increasing cigarette excise taxes and raising the legal smoking age to 21 in the United States

Health Policy

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 378-391

  Ahmad, Sajjad ^a   Billimek, John ^b  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Legal smoking age; Policy; QALYs; Simulation; Smoking prevalence; System dynamics; Tobacco taxes; Youth smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MODEL; PREVALENCE; PURCHASING; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SIMULATION; SMOKING CESSATION; TAX; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COMMERCE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SMOKING; TAXES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846292214     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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