This article aims at providing an account of the social organization of the cigarette counterfeiting business in the … People's Republic of China-a business that has been feeding the cigarette black markets around the globe. Specifically, we … aim to exhibit the scale and nature of cigarette counterfeiting in mainland China, describe the practices and actors in …

affordable, as income gains overrun cigarette price increases. The results show that average-price cigarettes in China were 1 … income consumers. The study estimates the affordability elasticity of cigarette consumption in China at -0.6, suggesting that … a 10 percent increase in cigarette affordability will result in 6.01 percent increase in cigarette consumption …

This paper examines how Chinese smokers respond to tax-driven cigarette price increases by estimating a discrete choice … model of demand for differentiated products, using annual nationwide brand-level cigarette sales data in China from 2005 to … 2010. We allow for substitution between different cigarette brands and also incorporate key features of rational addiction …