-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from various data resources. We provide strong evidence that the price gap … share of ad valorem tax in total excise tax leads to about a 4 to 5 percent increase in the price gap, with a smaller impact … manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …

of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction … impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life …

result. I hypothesize that people who quit smoking experience a renewed interest in their health, increased confidence in …

applied incorporates the negative price effect caused by an increase in tobacco taxes, combined with a presumed future … reduction in medical expenditures and a rise in working years caused by a reduction in the rate of smoking among the population …. The analysis includes estimates of the distributional impacts of price rises on cigarettes under various scenarios, based …

To achieve the target and to reduce the cost and burden from smoking, the Malaysian government regulates and implements …

This study estimates both conditional and unconditional cigarette price elasticity of quantity demanded in Croatia … cigarette price elasticity on the sample of Croatian households. The data from household surveys (HBS) conducted in Croatia for … cigarette price elasticity is −1.38 and estimated conditional price elasticity is −0.63. Simulation of the tax effects shows …