"The lobbying strategy is to keep excise as low as possible" - Tobacco industry excise taxation policy in Ukraine

Tobacco Induced Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Krasovsky, Konstantin S ^a  

^a Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC Ukraine)   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UKRAINE;

EID: 77956478977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16179625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1617-9625-8-10     Document Type: Article

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