Associations between cigarette prices and consumption in Europe 2004-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Increases in tobacco price are known to reduce smoking prevalence, but these correlations may be blunted by the availability of budget cigarettes, promoted by the tobacco industry to maintain profits.

Objective

To investigate the effect of budget cigarettes on cigarette consumption using data from Europe 2004-2014.

Methods

Data on the annual population-weighted cigarette consumption per adult come from the International Cigarette Consumption Database. Data on the annual tobacco price come from Euromonitor International for 23 European countries. Median prices and price differentials (operationalised as percentages obtained by dividing the difference between median and minimum prices by the median price) were examined. A linear random-effects model was use

SUBMITTER: Laverty AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7803893 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature