The use of legal, illegal and roll-your-own cigarettes to increasing tobacco excise taxes and comprehensive tobacco control policies: Findings from the ITC Uruguay survey

Tobacco Control

Volumn 24, Issue , 2015, Pages iii17-iii24

  Curti, Dardo ^a   Shang, Ce ^b   Ridgeway, William ^b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^b,c   Fong, Geoffrey T ^d,e  

^a Centro de Investigación para la Epidemia del Tabaquismo CIET   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c WHO Collaborating Centre   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; PACKAGING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; TOBACCO; URUGUAY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; URUGUAY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940580229     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051890     Document Type: Article

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