On the way of tobacco quitting: A VAR approach

In order to describe the process of tobacco quitting, we perform a VAR model and causality tests both on the monthly sales of tobacco products and nicotine dependence drugs in France, for the period going from February 2004 to April 2009. According to the path of tobacco quitting found out, it results that an upward harmonization of tax policy on the different tobacco products could accelerate the tobacco quitting process.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Vaillant, Nicolas Gérard ; lakhdar, Christian Ben ; Lebrun, Thérèse
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 31.2011, 4, p. 3253-3258
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	Tobacco \| Quitting \| Vector Auto-Regressive model

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	I1 - Health ; C3 - Econometric Methods: Multiple/Simultaneous Equation Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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