John, Rijo M. - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2005
bidis, leaf tobacco and alcohol having elasticities close to unity, cigarettes being the least price elastic of all. As …The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen percent of the tobacco users who … represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax …