Using search query surveillance to monitor tax avoidance and smoking cessation following the United States' 2009 "SCHIP" cigarette tax increase

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ayers, John W ^a,b   Ribisl, Kurt ^c   Brownstein, John S ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MONITORING; SEARCH ENGINE; SMOKING CESSATION; TAX; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

RICE STRIPE VIRUS;

HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAXES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952761050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016777     Document Type: Article

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