How do price minimizing behaviors impact smoking cessation? findings from the international tobacco control (ITC) four country survey

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1671-1691

  Licht, Andrea S ^a,b   Hyland, Andrew J ^a   O'Connor, Richard J ^a   Chaloupka, Frank J ^c   Borland, Ron ^d   Fong, Geoffrey T ^e   Nargis, Nigar ^f   Cummings, K Michael ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Cessation; Policy; Price; Socio economic status; Tax; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PURCHASING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; TAX; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79957919014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph8051671     Document Type: Article

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