title: Forty year trends in Canadian tobacco sales.
abstract: Despite high taxes, the price of tobacco products continues to be a "bargain" for smokers. This paper presents trends since 1950 in real tobacco price index, per capita real disposable income, smoking prevalence, and sales of cigarettes and fine-cut tobaccos. In addition, an "effective tobacco price index", which is the ratio of the real tobacco price index to per capita (age 15+) real disposable income, indexed to a base year (1950) is discussed. This index gives the price of tobacco products as a fraction of real disposable income. The data indicate that, in 1991, the "effective tobacco price" is only 78% of 1950 values.
authors.affiliation: Tobacco Products Section, Health Protection Branch, Health and Welfare Canada, Environmental Health Centre, Ottawa.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kaiserman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D008119:Lobbying; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013660:Taxes; D014026:Nicotiana