Price increase causes fewer sales of factory-made cigarettes and higher sales of cheaper loose tobacco in Germany

Health Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 683-693

  Hanewinkel, Reiner ^a   Radden, Christian ^b   Rosenkranz, Tobias ^b  

^a IFT Nord   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; Econometrics; Germany; Price; Sales data, population; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GERMANY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MARKETING; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 47249094489     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1282     Document Type: Article

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