The study examines prevalence of tobacco use in Estonia, expenditures by smokers, and the prevalence of prominent … diseases for which tobacco use is an important risk factor. It estimates private and public direct and indirect costs … associated with smoking in Estonia for 1998, looking at health care costs, fires, loss of household income, productivity losses …

, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose of this series is to provide … tobacco leaf. The knowledge note series is funded under the Health Tax Workstream of the World Bank's Global Tax Program …

of smoking is assembled and tested econometrically. The model identifies the factors that determine cigarette consumption …

We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that … were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases … argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …

We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that … were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases … argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …

taxes lower rates of smokeless tobacco use, they substantially increase smoking among young men. For example, a ten … percentage point increase in the tax on smokeless tobacco would raise the smoking rate by 5.3% percent in this group. The … indoor air laws have no effect. Since smoking cigarettes is much more harmful than smokeless tobacco, higher taxes on …