Tobacco companies have expressed concern that Australia's plain cigarette packaging initiative breaches international … trade obligations. This article begins by providing a background to cigarette packaging. It then examines developments … worldwide and in Australia that have led to this initiative, and finally examines the claim of cigarette companies that the move …

manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on … three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time …

Previous studies estimate the average effect of cigarette price on body mass index (BMI), with recent research showing …-run impact of cigarette price on BMI by performing quantile regressions and stratifying the sample by race, education, age, and … sex. Cigarette price has a highly heterogeneous negative effect that is more than three times as strong at high BMI levels …

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 … of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction …

We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise …

consumption and smoking participation (suggesting a complementarity in consumption), while higher cigarette prices tend to … of cross-price effects in cigarette and alcohol consumption. We use individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor … Surveillance System to investigate cigarette and alcohol consumption in the US, estimating both own and cross-price elasticities …

of cigarette use, little is known about their impacts on smoking cessation. This paper addresses the dynamics of smoking …While much is known about the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking participation and frequency … increase the probability of initial smoking cessation as well as subsequent cessation for those individuals who are unable to …

cigarette price and policy-related measures to estimate smoking cessation equations for young adult males and females separately … smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other … influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Monitoring the Future Surveys, augmented with …

With the rapid increase in electronic cigarette (e-cig) users worldwide, secondhand exposure to e-cig aerosols has …