Higher price, fewer packs: Evaluating a tobacco tax increase with cigarette sales data

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e5-e8

  Amato, Michael S ^a   Boyle, Raymond G ^a   Brock, Betsy ^b  

^a ClearWay Minnesota   (United States)

^b Association for Nonsmokers Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAX; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; SMOKING; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84922724062     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302438     Document Type: Article

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