Investigating cigarette affordability in 60 cities using the cigarette price-daily income ratio

Tobacco Control

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 429-432

  Kan, Ming Yue ^a  

^a 1202 Methodist House   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; INCOME; SMOKING; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INCOME; SMOKING;

EID: 37349130277     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2007.020487     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Jha P, Chaloupka FJ. The economics of global tobacco control. BMJ 2000;321:358-61.
2. World Health Organization. WHO framework convention on tobacco control. Geneva: WHO, 2003.
3. The World Bank. Curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control. Washington DC: The World Bank, 1999.
4. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the US. Response to increases in cigarette price/ethnicity, income, and age groups - United States, 1976-1993. Morb Mort Wkly Rep 1998;47:605-9.
5. Crawford MA. Reponses to tobacco control policies among youth. Tob Control 2002;11:14-9.
6. World Health Organization. Guidelines for controlling and monitoring the tobacco epidemic. Geneva: WHO, 1998.
7. California Department of Health Services. 2004 California tobacco control update. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Health Services, 2004.
8. Lal A, Scollo M. Big Mac index of cigarette affordabilify. Tob Control 2002;11:280-2.
9. Guindon GE, Tobin S, Yach D. Trends and affordability of cigarette prices: ample room for tax increases and related health gains. Tob Control 2002;11:35-43.
10. Blecher EH, Walbeek CPv. An international analysis of cigarette affordability. Tob Control 2004;13:339-46.
11. Hersch J. Gender, income levels, and the demand for cigarettes. J Risk Uncertainty 2000;21:263.
12. Adioetomo SM, Djutaharta T, Hendratno. Cigarette consumption, taxation, and household income: Indonesia case study Ecomomic of Tobacco Control Paper of the World Bank 2005. (Accessed 11 December 2006).
13. Hu T-W, Mao Z, Liu Y, et al. Smoking, standard of living, and poverty in China. Tob Control 2005;14:247-50.
14. Flint AJ, Novotny TE. Poverty status and cigarette smoking prevalence and cessation in the United States, 1983-1993: the independent risk of being poor. Tob Control 1997;6:14-8.
15. Bobak M, Jha P, Nguyen S, et al. Poverty and smoking. In: Jha P, Chaloupka FJ, eds. Tobacco control in developings countries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
16. De Beyer J, Lovelace C, Yurekli A. Poverty and tobacco. Tob Control 2001;10:210-1.
17. Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong. Gross national product (GNP) and per capita GNP. Hong Kong: Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong).
18. Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong. Quarterly report on general household survey (October to December 2005). Hong Kong: Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong, 2006.
19. Union Bank of Switzerland. Prices and earnings: a comparison of purchasing power around the globe. Zurich: UBS, 2006.
20. The World Bank. World development indicators 2006. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.
21. The Economist Intelligence Unit. Worldwide cost of living.