Tobacco taxation: The importance of earmarking the revenue to health care and tobacco control

Tobacco Induced Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Vardavas, Constantine I ^a,b   Filippidis, Filippos T ^c   Agaku, Israel ^a   Mytaras, Vasileios ^b   Bertic, Monique ^a   Connolly, Gregory N ^a   Tountas, Yannis ^c   Behrakis, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hellenic Cancer Society Athens   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAX; TOBACCO;

EID: 84871550233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16179625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1617-9625-10-21     Document Type: Article

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