Desierto, Desiree A.Aribbay, Carlo Jose T.Cardaño, Catherine Hazel N.2024-11-132024-11-132011-10https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/1106This paper is stimulated by the recent proposition of a tobacco tax reform in the Philippines. Two bills, filed in Congress by Batanes Representative Henedina Abad and Iloilo Representative Niel Tupas Jr, seek to reform the taxation system among tobacco products to deter smoking incidents in the country. With this imminent policy in smoking cessation, this study attempts to provide insights on how Filipinos of different genders and income levels react on such phenomenon. Using a cross sectional regression analysis of the Family Income and Expenditures Survey of 2009, this paper estimates the different income elasticities of demand among Filipinos with different income levels and looks into the various determinants of cigarette demand in the Philippines. For both men and women, income elasticities for smoking participation and quantity of cigarettes smoked are significant but very nominal. These effects become less and less significant as income increases. Education has strong negative effects on smoking, especially for high-income respondents. Increases in own-earnings decrease individuals' consumption of cigarettes for both sexes but is less significant to female. Marital status becomes insignificant as income level improves. Employment is negatively influential to consumption but tends to be irrelevant to women. Surprisingly, the presence of young children has a positive, significant effect to cigarette consumption. Indeed, the Philippine demand for cigarettes is sensitive to several factors.enCigarette consumptionsSmoking behaviorThesis