Who are the potential smokers of smuggled cigarettes?

Asian Economic Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-234

  Chen, Hsin Fan ^a   Chen, Sheng Hung ^b   Lee, Jie Min ^c   Jeng, Huei Yann ^d  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Latent class model; Smuggled cigarettes

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMUGGLING; TOBACCO;

TAIWAN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77955938179     PISSN: 13513958     EISSN: 14678381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2010.02040.x     Document Type: Article

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