Are lower income smokers more price sensitive?: The evidence from korean cigarette tax increases

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 141-146

  Choi, Seng Eun ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Public Finance   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BINDING; ELASTICITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOREA; META ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TAX; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADULT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INCOME; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH KOREA; TIME FACTOR; TOBACCO;

ADULT; COMMERCE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCOME; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAXES; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84959160328     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051680     Document Type: Article

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