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Minimum Pricing of Alcohol versus Volumetric Taxation: Which Policy Will Reduce Heavy Consumption without Adversely Affecting Light and Moderate Consumers?

BACKGROUND: We estimate the effect on light, moderate and heavy consumers of alcohol from implementing a minimum unit price for alcohol (MUP) compared with a uniform volumetric tax. METHODS: We analyse scanner data from a panel survey of demographically representative households (n = 885) collected...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Anurag, Vandenberg, Brian, Hollingsworth, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080936