Is youth smoking responsive to cigarette prices? evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Tobacco Control

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 419-424

  Kostova, Deliana ^a   Ross, Hana ^b   Blecher, Evan ^b   Markowitz, Sara ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054923942     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2010.038786     Document Type: Article

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