cigarette tax increase initiative (from 18 cents to 43 cents), which was defeated by a sophisticated tobacco industry campaign … to divert the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) funds to non-health related programs were made in 1999, tobacco control … control advocates again passed a successful statewide initiative (I-146) to get 32% of the MSA money for tobacco use …

changes the political equilibrium: state cigarette excise taxes were approximately $0.10 higher in the post-MSA period. For …The goal of our empirical analysis is to assess whether the changes in cigarette excise taxes and cigarette prices can … be attributed to litigation brought by the states and the resulting settlements, holding other factors constant. Using …

many states have cut funding for tobacco prevention, the tobacco industry increased its marketing expenditures by 66 … Federal Trade Commission’s most recent annual report on tobacco marketing. While the FTC report was for calendar year 2001 …, there is strong evidence that tobacco industry marketing expenditures have continued to increase. Based on the latest FTC …

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. …

targeting the tobacco farming and cigarette industries face a dilemma of public health versus rural livelihoods. This policy …Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is … paper outlines policy ideas and recommendations for Indonesian policymakers with the aim of reducing cigarette consumption …

expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco and its relationships with a group of socioeconomic variables. It is found that this …