The number of smokers in Africa is on the rise. Research calculates the effect of tax-led price increases on the smoking habits of young people.
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor & Associate Director of the Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town