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Author
Sumner, D. A. | Greenberg, D. | Lago, A. M. | Shannon, J. A. | Oster, G. | Ford, G. T. | Brown, J. P. | Calfee, J. E.
Title
Economic Sector Data for Modeling the Impact of Less Ignition-Prone Cigarettes. Volume 6. Technical Study Group Cigarette Safety Act of 1984.
Coporate
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy Resources for the Future Technical Study Group Cigarette Safety Act of 1984
Report
Volume 6
October 1987
154 p.
Keywords
cigarettes
Identifiers
consumer products
Abstract
This project on the agricultural impacts of reduced ignition cigarettes has been carried out in close contact with the Applied Economics group of the National Bureau of Standards. The model is an extension of the log-linear equilibrium model developed in Sumner and Wohlgenant [1]. In Sumner and Wohlgenant we applied the model to the case of a cigarette excise tax increase. In the present case, cigarette modifications present a more complicated application but the core of the model and its solution remain. The other extensions of the present effort are: to draw more completely implications for the tobacco growing industry and to indicate more fully actual, as well as proportional, changes.