The impact of an increase in excise tax on the retail price of tobacco in New Zealand

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 458-463

  Marsh, Louise ^a   Cameron, Claire ^a   Quigg, Robin ^a   Hoek, Janet ^a   Doscher, Crile ^b   McGee, Rob ^a   Sullivan, Trudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; TOBACCO; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAX;

COMMERCE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; TAXES; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE CESSATION;

EID: 84950971864     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052259     Document Type: Article

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