The recent and projected public health and economic benefits of cigarette taxation in Greece

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 452-454

  Alpert, Hillel R ^a   Vardavas, Constantine I ^a,b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^c   Vozikis, Athanassios ^d   Athanasakis, Konstantinos ^e   Kyriopoulos, Ioannis ^e   Bertic, Monique ^a   Behrakis, Panagiotis K ^a,b,f   Connolly, Gregory N ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hellenic Cancer Society Athens   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^e NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^f Academy of Athens Biomedical Research Foundation   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; GREECE; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

COMMERCE; GREECE; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAXES; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84906094871     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050857     Document Type: Article

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