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 …

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

This paper examines some of the perceived tensions between free trade and regulation of tobacco for health purposes and … special rules for tobacco are unnecessary. Free trade itself does not raise national sovereignty concerns, nor does it …

analysis also indicates that higher cigarette taxes raise the use of smokeless tobacco among both men and women while clean … examined smokeless tobacco or whether anti-tobacco policies aimed at either smokeless tobacco or cigarettes lead to … substitution between these two products. Using newly compiled data on smokeless tobacco taxes, this paper finds that while these …