Title :
Smoking Probability and Cigarettes Consumption of Chinese People
Author :
Chen Ke ; Gao Ying
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Marketing, Univ. of Int. Bus. & Econ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
This paper analyzes Chinese smoking behavior based on the dataset of a large scale national sampling survey in 2005. Probability of smoking and cigarette demand are estimated. Price elasticity of demand is calculated which is recommended to support making policy of tobacco control.
Keywords :
pricing; tobacco products; AD 2005; China; cigarettes consumption; price elasticity; smoking probability; tobacco control; Diseases; Elasticity; Large-scale systems; NIST; Probability; Public healthcare; Public policy; Sampling methods; Solids; Statistical distributions;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2901-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2902-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163408
