Anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco: an online cross-sectional survey with cigarette smokers and ex-smokers in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As tobacco companies can circumvent tax increases, a minimum retail price per-cigarette/per-gram of roll-your-own tobacco presents an additional mechanism for governments to reduce smoking. We examined (1) anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price-per-cigarette/per-gram among smokers in the UK; (2) what demographic and smoker characteristics are associated with anticipated responses; and (3) whether minimum pricing may help ex-smokers stay quit.

Design

Cross-sectional survey (May-July 2019).

Setting

UK.

Participants

Adult cigarette smokers (n=2412) and ex-smokers (n=700).

Main outcome measurements

Anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price of £10.00 for 20 cigarettes (£0.50 per-cigarette) and £13.50 for 30 grams of roll-

SUBMITTER: Critchlow N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986940 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature