Real price and affordability as challenges for effective tobacco control policies: an analysis for Argentina

• Main Authors: Germán Rodríguez-Iglesias, Martín González-Rozada, Beatriz Marcet Champagne, Verónica Schoj
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2015
• Subjects: Productos de tabaco; tributación de los productos derivados del tabaco; impuestos; renta; políticas públicas de salud; economía; indicadores; Argentina; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Rip
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1ddb0493d7c54cf6b0a3f882b4151f0f

Objective. To describe the evolution of cigarettes' real price and affordability during the last decade in Argentina. Methods. To analyze the real price of cigarettes, the weighted average monthly price of a pack of 20 cigarettes was divided by the consumer price index (CPI) from 2004 to 2014....