Explaining Differences in Cigarette Consumption Between Countries

Sample size: 90 publication Evidence: moderate

Author Information

Author(s): Srinivas Kolluru, Rao Bhanoji

Primary Institution: GNN Market Research Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India; LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

What socio-economic factors explain the differences in cigarette consumption across countries?

Countries with a higher proportion of elderly people and higher female literacy rates tend to have higher cigarette consumption.

Cigarette consumption is positively correlated with the percentage of the population aged over 65 years.
Higher female literacy rates are associated with increased cigarette consumption.
Countries with higher per capita GDP also show higher cigarette consumption.

This study found that older people and educated women smoke more cigarettes in different countries.

The study used cross-national multiple regressions to analyze the relationship between per capita cigarette consumption and socio-economic variables.

The study may be affected by multi-collinearity among the independent variables.

Data included 90 countries with varying levels of development.

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