Cigarette price level and variation in five Southeast Asian countries

Tobacco Control

Volumn 24, Issue E2, 2015, Pages e137-e141

  Liber, Alex C ^a   Ross, Hana ^a   Ratanachena, Sophapan ^b   Dorotheo, E Ulysses ^b   Foong, Kin ^c  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)   (Thailand)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARKETING; PACKAGING; POLICY; SMOKING; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAX; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MARKETING; POLICY; PRODUCT PACKAGING; SMOKING; TAXES; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84940534542     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051184     Document Type: Article

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