We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents … daily tobacco consumption and tax revenue by 7-26%. This increase is induced by aging of large birth cohorts. …

about smoking have changed, as measured from the California Tobacco Surveys (CTS) and other data sources. Some of the most … cigarette consumption fell by a factor of 57% in California compared to only 27% in the rest of the United States. By the end of … per capita cigarette consumption. In 1999, only 13.0±0.3% of Californians were daily smokers. Only 6.4±0.4% of …

Several recent studies demonstrate a positive effect of cigarette prices and taxes on obesity among adults, especially … those who smoke. If higher cigarette costs affect smokers' weights by increasing calories consumed or increasing food … expenditures, then cigarette taxes and prices may also affect obesity in children of smokers. This study examines the link between …

Tobacco products such as bidi and cigarette, both of which are smoked, cater to different kinds of households in India … patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India …. Using a Multinomial Logit Model, we analyze the choice behavior of a household in deciding whether and which tobacco …

represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax …The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who … net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco products would bring out the potential of tax as an instrument to …

Although cigarette smoking accounts for the majority of youth tobacco use, it is important to monitor use of other … tobacco products. These other products - cigars, smokeless tobacco, bidis, kreteks, and pipes - pose many of the same health … risks as cigarettes and may present different dangers. For example, use of smokeless tobacco is associated with increased …