The price sensitivity of cigarette consumption in Bangladesh: Evidence from the international tobacco control (ITC) Bangladesh wave 1 (2009) and wave 2 (2010) surveys

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages

  Nargis, Nigar ^a   Ruthbah, Ummul H ^a   Ghulam Hussain, A K M ^a   Fong, Geoffrey T ^b,c   Huq, Iftekharul ^d,e   Ashiquzzaman, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d EAST WEST UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^e Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW/MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PREVALENCE; PRICE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAX; TAXATION; TOBACCO;

ECONOMICS; LOW/MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PRICE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TAXATION;

BANGLADESH; COMMERCE; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84899642691     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050835     Document Type: Article

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