Paying the price: A cross-sectional survey of Australian socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers' responses to hypothetical cigarette price rises

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 177-185

  Guillaumier, Ashleigh ^a   Bonevski, Billie ^a   Paul, Christine ^a   D'Este, Catherine ^a   Doran, Christopher ^a   Siahpush, Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Smoking; Social disadvantage; Tobacco price

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRICE; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

SMOKING; SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE; TOBACCO PRICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897626197     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dar.12103     Document Type: Article

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