We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

partly offset by declining rates of smoking. This paper examines historical trends in tobacco excise, focussing on the recent …Tobacco excise has grown strongly over the last few years as significant increases in the excise rate have been only … past including the impact of significant policy changes over the last decade, and then discusses how tobacco excise is …

While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

Many investors do not want to finance morally objectionable activities with their money, such as smoking. But is … investing in the shares of tobacco companies the same as financing the tobacco business? Analyzing two decades of data we find … that investors in tobacco shares have not provided any fresh capital to tobacco firms for expanding their operations, so …

We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that … were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases … argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …

of smoking is assembled and tested econometrically. The model identifies the factors that determine cigarette consumption …

This paper examines some of the perceived tensions between free trade and regulation of tobacco for health purposes and … special rules for tobacco are unnecessary. Free trade itself does not raise national sovereignty concerns, nor does it …