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    The tobacco industry in Cabagan, Isabela: a market survey
    (1982-04-07) Zipagan, Stella T.; Monsod, Solita
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    Production and pricing operations in the Philippine Virginia Tobacco industry
    (1980-01) Pascua, Constante T.; Alonzo, Ruperto P.
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    The costs of passive smoking: focus on environmental tobacco smoke exposure in family households
    (2006-10-06) Delmendo, Lalaine; Garilva, Giselle; Tecson, Gwendolyn
    The health consequences of cigarette smoking to the smokers have been the focus of many studies in the past decades. Despite the efforts of the government to decrease the total number of smokers in the country, data shows that the prevalence of smoking has considerably increased in the past years. Consequently, as shown by studies conducted abroad, the increase in the amount of secondhand smoke in the environment gives rise to diseases related to passive smoking. This paper shows that exposed nonsmokers face a higher probability of acquiring smoking-related diseases than unexposed nonsmokers. Furthermore, the paper presents the medical costs incurred by passive smokers.
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    Estimation of the excise tax leakage on cigarettes in the Philippines: a measure of efficiency in government's tax collection efforts
    (2008-03) Gatdula, Marie Abigael A.; Parado, Mariel Jances Nhayin D.; Clarete, Ramon L.
    This study, using aggregate time-series data, estimates the excise tax leakage in the domestic and imported cigarette market in the Philippines following the Partial Adjustment Model by Nerlove (1957) and used by Rakhe in 2003. This is done to evaluate the tax effort given by the government. Analysis of the tax leakage estimates show that the amount not collected is around 8 billion pesos per year for the domestic cigarette market alone. Average percentages from the potential collection from the domestic and imported market are 31.54% and 12.49%, respectively.
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    Changes that make difference: justifying increases in cigarette excise taxes and other anti-smoking regulations
    (2009-01) Monteclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.; Tan, Edita
    The paper justifies increases in cigarette excise taxes and other anti-smoking regulations by showing the impacts of smoking on health. It shows first that smokers are more likely to have certain illnesses, then highlights that the poor suffer more from illnesses. In order to explain these, the paper turns to the smoking habits of smokers across different wealth classes. After finding that smoking habits are fairly consistent across different social classes, the paper then turns to the opportunity costs of tobacco smoking to explain inequalities in health across wealth classes. The paper uses a microeconomic regression to find that as a household spends a bigger portion of its income on tobacco, it spends less on food and medicine. It is argued that having similar smoking habits as the rich, the poor thus spend a bigger portion of its income on cigarettes, and therefore spend less on food and medicine. The paper also shows that a household foregoes education consumption for cigarette smoking, and argues different developmental implications of smoking to the poor, and to the country. The paper turns to policy implications of these findings, and evaluates the benefits and costs of cigarette-excise taxes. It then discusses the other anti-smoking regulations that were pursued in the country, and suggests that these should be continued, increased, and made to target the poor.
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    An evaluation of the Philippine virginia tobacco administration
    (1985-03) Niguidula, Joel E.; Villanueva, Raul B.
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    Incidence of tobacco excise taxes and revenue generation in the Philippines
    (2007-03-30) Mendoza, Adrian R.; Tiansay, Aida May L.
    We evaluate tobacco excise taxes m terms of their incidence and capacity to generate revenue. Using income and tobacco expenditure data from five Family Income and Expenditures Surveys 1991 to 2003, we adopt a partial equilibrium analysis to estimate the overall incidence, as well as the incidence in urban and rural areas. We then calculate for the Suits indices to determine the degree of progressivity of the excises. Moreover, to examine the capacity of the excises to generate revenue, we test the assumption in the Ramsey rule which states that the demand for tobacco products is price inelastic. Using the ordinary least squares (OLS) method, we adopt the rational addiction theory to model the demand for tobacco during the period 1990 to 2006. The estimated price elasticities from the rational addiction model are then used to analyze the effect of price responsiveness on tax yields. The results show that the poor, especially in urban areas, are the most heavily hit by the tobacco excises. Further, the taxes hurt the consumers in rural areas more than in urban areas. The OLS estimates appear to support the hypotheses of the rational addiction theory, namely, that present tobacco consumption is affected by both past and future consumption, and that the demand for tobacco becomes more price responsive overtime. Thus, the increasing negative price elasticities of the demand for tobacco seem to adversely affect the capacity of the excises for revenue generation.
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    You smoke? an economic analysis on the prevalence of smoking among Filipino youth
    (2010-11-03) Aguilar, Hendrick Christopher Bello; Bayhon, Camille Frances Winona Hamoy
    The tobacco epidemic is a worldwide phenomenon with significantly destructive effects on developing, transitional, and industrialized nations. It generates cost not only on individuals but on a country's economy as it affects health shoddily and results to inefficiency and losses. It is alarming that in the present day, smoking prevalence among youth is high. This reflects on older age groups as well, as studies suggest that smoking prevalence among adults starts during their adolescence stage. Thus, the paper focuses on smoking prevalence among Filipino youth and the possible factors that can affect this. The proponents use a logistic estimation in the analysis of the factors that may determine smoking prevalence among Filipino youth. Much of the results are consistent to the expected outcomes, and such determinants like peer and family influence cause drastic effects.