Australian smokers' and recent quitters' responses to the increasing price of cigarettes in the context of a tobacco tax increase

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1687-1695

  Dunlop, Sally M ^a,b   Perez, Donna ^b   Cotter, Trish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cessation; Prices; Smoking; Taxation; Tracking data

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TAX; TELEPHONE; TIME; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961126847     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03492.x     Document Type: Article

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