Introduction Tobacco is one of the world's largest preventable causes of premature death,
accounting for more than 8 million deaths and costing the global economy US $1.4 trillion …

Purpose This study aims at analysing the causal crowding-out effect of tobacco spending on
intrahousehold budget share in Vietnam. Besides, we also examine the differences in …

Background The main goal of this study is to estimate the crowding out impact of tobacco
expenditures on the household budget allocation to other mutually exclusive commodity …

In this paper, we use Deaton's demand model and Household Budget Survey data from
2006 to 2017 to provide a first robust and reliable estimate of cigarettes price elasticity for …

Objective To estimate the price elasticity of demand for South Africa and thereby contribute
to growing the evidence base of the likely impact of excise taxes on cigarette demand in low …

Background The cigarette industry usually claims that cigarette tax increases would only
cause a demand-switching effect, pushing consumers towards the illicit market, instead of …

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control policies on tobacco and
alcohol consumption patterns and the evolution of crowding-out effects on other household …

METHODS We estimate a demand system of quadratic conditional Engel curves for a set of
twelve groups of commodities using the 2012/2013 Ghana Living Standards Survey. Unlike …

Introduction Tobacco use has a disproportionate impact on lower socioeconomic groups in
India. The study quantifies the number of people who would fall under the national poverty …

Background The sale of aerated or sugar-sweetened beverages (ASBs) has been
consistently growing in India which has also experienced a major increase in non …