Taxing times? Smoker response to tax increases

Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-48

  Cowie, Nathan ^a   Glover, Marewa ^a   Gentles, Dudley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Maori; Pacific; Smoking cessation; Tax; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900864525     PISSN: 17570980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EIHSC-08-2013-0014     Document Type: Article

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