Cigarette tax avoidance and evasion: Findings from the international tobacco control policy evaluation (ITC) project

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages

  Emmanuel Guindon, G ^a,b   Driezen, Pete ^b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^c,d   Fong, Geoffrey T ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTRABAND; CRIME; ECONOMICS; EVASION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; PREVALENCE; PRICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMUGGLING; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

AVOIDANCE; CIGARETTE; CONTRABAND; EVASION; PRICE; SMOKING; SMUGGLING; TAX; TOBACCO;

CRIME; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; TAXES; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84899652990     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051074     Document Type: Article

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