Andrea S. Licht, Andrew Hyland, Richard J. O’Connor, Frank J. Chaloupka et al.
This paper examines how price minimizing behaviors impact efforts to stop smoking. Data on 4,988 participants from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Four-Country Survey who were smokers at baseline (wave 5) and interviewed at a 1 year follow-up were used. We examined whether ...
Deliana Kostova, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ayda Yürekli, Hana Ross et al.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of two primary determinants of cigarette consumption: cigarette affordability and the range of prices paid for cigarettes (and bidis, where applicable) in a set of 15 countries. From this cross-country comparison, identify places where opportunities may exi...
Nigar Nargis, Michał Stokłosa, Jeffrey Drope, Geoffrey T. Fong et al.
BACKGROUND: The price of tobacco products in relation to the income of tobacco users-affordability-is recognised as a key determinant of tobacco use behaviour. The effectiveness of a price increase as a deterrent to tobacco use depends on how much price increases in relation to the income of the pot...
Nigar Nargis, Geoffrey T. Fong, Frank J. Chaloupka, Qiang Li
BACKGROUND: Increasing tobacco taxes to increase price is a proven tobacco control measure. This article investigates how smokers respond to tax and price increases in their choice of discount brand cigarettes versus premium brands. OBJECTIVE: To estimate how increase in the tax rate can affect smok...
Muhammad Shahzad, Anwar Shah, Frank J. Chaloupka
Smoking has been the topic of research for long time. Scholars have written on this issue from different dimensions like revenue generation, employment creation, environmental and health hazards. However, it exposes a person to more than 400 carcinogenic chemicals, causing many detrimental diseases ...