Do cigarette prices motivate smokers to quit? New evidence from the ITC survey

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 609-619

  Ross, Hana ^a   Blecher, Evan ^a   Yan, Lili ^a   Hyland, Andrew ^b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cessation; Longitudinal data; Prices; Smoking; Taxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; TAX; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CANADA; COMMERCE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAXES; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551628226     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03192.x     Document Type: Article

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