Association between tobacco prices and smoking onset: evidence from the TCP India Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco use is prevalent among youth and adults in India. However, direct evidence on how increasing taxes or prices affect tobacco use onset is scarce.

Objective

To analyse the associations between cigarette and bidi prices and smoking onset in India, and how these associations differ by socioeconomic status.

Methodology

The Wave 1 of the Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation India Survey by the International Tobacco Control Project contains information on the age at smoking onset for cigarettes and bidis. Using this information, data were expanded to a yearly pseudo-panel dataset that tracked respondents at risk of smoking onset from 1998 to 2011. The associations between bidi prices and bidi smoking onset, between cigarette prices and cigarette smoking onset

SUBMITTER: Shang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7336336 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature