What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?

K. Michael Cummings, Georges J. Nahhas and David T. Sweanor
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K. Michael Cummings: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Georges J. Nahhas: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
David T. Sweanor: Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 10, 1-4

Abstract: This study describes how trends in the sale of cigarettes in Japan between 2011 and 2019 correspond to the sales of heated tobacco products (HTPs) that were introduced into the Japanese market in late 2015. Data used for this study come from the Tobacco Institute of Japan and Philip Morris International. The findings show that the accelerated decline in cigarette only sales in Japan since 2016 corresponds to the introduction and growth in the sales of HTPs.

Keywords: cigarettes; marketing; policy; nicotine; prevention; epidemiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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