Cigarettes and addiction information: Simulating the demand effects of the tobacco industry's 'conspiracy of silence'

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 2151-2159

  Fenn, Aju J ^a   Schroeter, John R ^b  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ELASTICITY; SMOKING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7244236512     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000290138     Document Type: Article

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