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The effects of a rise in cigarette price on cigarette consumption, tobacco taxation revenues, and of smoking-related deaths in 28 EU countries-- applying threshold regression modelling

BACKGROUND: European Union public healthcare expenditure on treating smoking and attributable diseases is estimated at over €25bn annually. The reduction of tobacco consumption has thus become one of the major social policies of the EU. This study investigates the effects of price hikes on cigarette...

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Autores principales: Yeh, Chun-Yuan, Schafferer, Christian, Lee, Jie-Min, Ho, Li-Ming, Hsieh, Chi-Jung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28931379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4685-x