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Over many decades the global tobacco industry has denied in public, in the courts, and before legislatures that smoking … evidence of the harm smoking causes, as well as public demand for accountability. This report, based on internal industry …. It shows as well that the industry still puts the responsibility of addiction and harm on the smoker. …
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This is not a report about just any crop and just any country. It is a report about tobacco, which is the foremost cause of preventable death in th world today, and India, which is the second largest country in the world, with a billion plus population. This report is also an examination of the...
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This paper describes trends in tobacco use in Sri Lanka, assesses the economic contribution of the industry (jobs, earnings, tax revenues and trade balance), and analyses the relationship between demand for cigarettes and prices and incomes, looking at different socioeconomic groups. It uses the...
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to questions regarding locations where smoking should be allowed. A regression analysis showed that the social … tobacco control campaign, the average individual's views on the social unacceptability of smoking changed to more closely …
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This paper usesthe Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) Household Survey, conducted in 1995, to analyze demand for cigarettes in Bulgaria and the effects on the poor of a hypothetical revenue-maximizing specific excise tax increase levied on cigarettes. One important finding is that the tax...
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A Report on Smoking Advertising and Promotion Bans in The Islamic Republic of IranIntroduction The Islamic Republic of …
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: smoking prevalence, legislation, economics, cessation and general policy. An important advance on the 2001 exercise is that …
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Summary This report presents data on a partial sample of a survey of cigarette smoking behaviors and attitudes among … Californians conducted during the summer of 1990. The prevalence of current smoking among adults in California is 21.2%, with males … (23.8%) smoking more than females(18.8%). This represents a sharp decline in smoking following the increase in the tobacco …
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This study is based on various sources but mainly on the Myanmar Study on Tobacco Economics 2001. Recent trends in the price of tobacco products show that the real prices of all tobacco produts have been declining. In order to effectively reduce tobacco consumption, real prices of tobacco...
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the 1970s when tobacco use was banned in cinemas, followed by a ban on smoking on domestic flights.(3) In 1993 the first … Tobacco Products Control Act (4) was passed and was implemented in 1995. It regulated smoking in public places, prohibited …. It was not a comprehensive act in that it had the following shortcomings: radio advertising was still allowed; smoking in …
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