This paper presents a model of estimated demand for four tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and … smoking tobacco products. Own elasticities and cross-price elasticities are used to obtain insights into the effectiveness and … implications of new policy measures. Of particular interest is whether substitution of various tobacco products varies by market …

dynamic population model is used to estimate future patterns (both prevalence and consumption) of tobacco use in Vietnam, with … and without changes to tobacco excise for the period 2006–2016. Three increases in the base case excise tax rate of 55 … cross price elasticities are used to explore shifts from cigarette to other forms of tobacco. Revenue implications for the …

government policies to where production locates in the primary objective of the study. The pork and non-cigar tobacco industries … manufactured products is generally significant across industries for production, although this is not the case for specific tobacco … industries. The presence of manufacture is significant for hog production and could not be assessed for tobacco. While federal …

The objective of this study was to assess the potential for reducing the harm resulting from tobacco use through health … promotion programmes run in community stores in remote Aboriginal communities. The Tobacco Project utilised data from 111 … stakeholder interviews (72 at baseline and 71 at follow-up after 12 months) assessing presence of sales to minors, tobacco …

in the determination of an effective tobacco control strategy. In this paper, we investigate a compact and simplified …-based adaptive tobacco control policy. Standard decision tree (SDT) based rule discovery depends on decision boundaries in the … to learn intermediate concepts for high dimensional large datasets such as tobacco control. In this paper, we propose a …

other way around. Moreover, we found that alcohol is a gateway for cigarette which further supports our conclusion … concerning the reinforcing effect of alcohol consumption on cigarette consumption. We believe that drinking works as a trigger … to cut cigarette consumption might increase alcohol consumption to cope with resulting stress, which induces an asymmetry …

, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diversity of diet. The results from a dynamic empirical model suggest that …, economic growth has a significant impact on changes in fat and protein consumption and on alcohol use, while unemployment … changes significantly impact protein intake, alcohol consumption and the diversity of diet. …

Few publications have attempted to tackle the nature of alcohol on a global level. Given its universal availability and … the emerging amount of alcohol-related data, we explore the cross-country and cross-continent nature of alcohol. Similarly … suggest alcohol is unclassifiable in the typical demand model as we observe more unresponsive price elasticity estimates as …