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1 Identifying priority questions regarding rapid systematic reviews' methods: protocol for an eDelphi study Vieira AM; Szczepanik G; de Waure C; Tricco AC; Oliver S; Stojanovic J; Ribeiro PAB; Pollock D; Akl EA; Lavis J; Kuchenmuller T; Bragge P; Langer L; Bacon S; 37419644
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2 EQ-5D-5L and SF-6Dv2 utility scores in people living with chronic low back pain: a survey from Quebec. Poder TG, Wang L, Carrier N 32933957
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3 The Impact of Income and Taxation in a Price-Tiered Cigarette Market: findings from the ITC Bangladesh Surveys. Huq I, Nargis N, Lkhagvasuren D, Hussain AG, Fong GT 29695459
PSYCHOLOGY

 

Title:The Impact of Income and Taxation in a Price-Tiered Cigarette Market: findings from the ITC Bangladesh Surveys.
Authors:Huq I,  Nargis N,  Lkhagvasuren D,  Hussain AG,  Fong GT
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29695459?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054053
Publication:Tobacco control
Keywords:economics;  price;  taxation; 
PMID:29695459 Category:Tob Control Date Added:2019-09-12
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2 Economic and Health Policy Research Unit, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
3 Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
4 Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5 Department of Psychology and School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
6 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The Impact of Income and Taxation in a Price-Tiered Cigarette Market: findings from the ITC Bangladesh Surveys.

Tob Control. 2019 05;28(Suppl 1):s37-s44

Authors: Huq I, Nargis N, Lkhagvasuren D, Hussain AG, Fong GT

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Taxing tobacco is among the most effective measures of tobacco control. However, in a tiered market structure where multiple tiers of taxes coexist, the anticipated impact of tobacco taxes on consumption is complex. This paper investigates changing smoking behaviour in lieu of changing prices and changing income. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of change in prices (through taxes) and change in income in a price-tiered cigarette market.

METHOD: A panel dataset from the International Tobacco Control Bangladesh surveys is used for analysis. For preliminary analysis transition matrices are developed. Next, probit and multinomial logit regression models are used to identify the effects of changes in prices and changes in income along with other control variables.

FINDINGS: Transition matrices show significant movement of smokers across price tiers from one wave to another. Regression results show that higher income raises the probability to up-trade and decreases the probability to down-trade. Results also show that higher prices raises the probability to up-trade and reduces the probability to down-trade. Although not significant, there exists a negative relationship between the probability to down-trade and the probability to intend to quit.

CONCLUSION: It is evident from the results that a price-tiered market provides smokers more opportunities to accommodate their smoking behaviour when faced with price and income change. Therefore, tiered structure of the tax system should be replaced with uniform taxes. Moreover, overall cigarette taxes need to be raised to an extent so that it off-sets any positive effects of income growth.

PMID: 29695459 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]




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