Tobacco farming is an agricultural activity of great importance in Rio Grande do Sul, which stands out as the largest producer of leaf tobacco in the country, especially in the region of Vale do Rio Pardo, due to its ...

On the 16th of May 2006, the Diario Oficial de la Republica de Chile (Official News of the Republic of Chile), published Law No. 20.105, which modified Law No. 19.419 regarding advertising and consumption of tobacco. Since ...

Introduction There is an agreement in the literature that tobacco price elasticity is around −0.4 for given location. Furthermore, works only focus separately, on the temporal dimension or the spatial dimension, however, ...

In the Northwest of Argentina tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is economically and socially important. Tobacco mono-cropping, excessive tillage and inadequate irrigation management cause soil degradation. This and also tobacco ...

The purpose of this study is to estimate the distributive effects of tobacco tax increases using the extended cost benefit analysis developed by Fuchs and Meneses (2017), which, in addition to the direct, short-term effects ...

Consumption of psychoactive substances is a long-standing tradition among indigenous peoples of the Americas. Archaeologically, consumption of tobacco has been shown through analysis of archaeological smoking pipe residues, ...

Background: Tobacco exposure remains a significant issue for public health, especially for pregnant women. It increases the risk for premature labor, low birth weight and small for gestational age (SGA), among other effects. ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the national public policies and the configuration of the tobacco issue in Argentina, considering the political, ideological, institutional, economic and social aspects. This ...