The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...

This publication was commissioned and published in the hope that descriptions of strategies, successes, and setbacks in promoting stronger tobacco control policies around the world would be of wide interest and might be useful to people grappling with similar issues. As participants in academic,...

This report describes a pilot cessation study aimed to test well-proven approaches to helping smokers quit in a resource-poor setting. The group-randomized trial (by village) included 788 poor smokers in 18 villages. Participants were assigned to one of three intervention groups : counseling...

This report is a compilation of over 600 references and abstracts found in a search of many data bases, using these keywords: tobacco, smoking, cessation, quitting, cigarettes, tobacco production and China. It covers publications from 1990 to 2003. Studies are organized by broad subject matter,...

This report is a compilation of references and abstracts of all research on tobacco in India from 1985 to 2003. Studies are organized by subject matter, and within each sub-topic, are arranged by year of publication with most recent studies listed first, and for studies published in the same...