) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence in Australia. First, we look at the year of data before plain packaging was …A stated objective of the Australian Plain Packaging Act 2011 is to reduce smoking prevalence. We use the Roy Morgan … (possible) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence. Two informative analyses help to draw conclusions on the (actual …

A key stated objective of the Australian Plain Packaging Act 2011 is to influence smoking prevalence, in particular of … carry out a statistical trend analysis to study the (possible) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence of minors in … Australia. More specifically, we fit a linear time trend that explains well the fact that observed smoking prevalence has …

Researchers often use the discrepancy between the self-reported and biochemically assessed active smoking status to … argue that self-reported smoking status is not reliable, ignoring the limitations of biochemically assessed measures and … self-reported and biochemically assessed smoking data taking into account errors with both methods. Our results suggest …