The relation between cigarette taxes and older adult smoking in Zhejiang and Gansu: what happened following the 2009 Chinese Tax adjustments?

Table 3 Effects of the Excise Tax Rate at producer level in 2009 on smoking behaviors and health status

	Daily consumed cigarettes number		Self-reported health				Chronic disease
	Daily consumed cigarettes number		Fair health		Poor health
	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
Interaction between tobacco tax and intervention time	5.02***	1.56	2.27	1.69	4.47**	2.18	13.19***	4.36
Tobacco tax	−10.15***	1.47	−0.61	1.55	−1.58***	1.83	−10.90**	4.48
Intervention time	−0.45***	0.14	−0.27	0.16	−0.62***	0.20	−0.98**	0.39
Cigarette price	−0.08***	0.01	−0.05***	0.01	−0.06***	0.02	−0.01	0.05
Age	−2.72***	0.36	1.72***	0.40	2.64***	0.40	13.47***	2.23
Gender	0.62**	0.26	0.04	0.29	0.63**	0.31	−2.16	1.40
Marital status	0.28*	0.15	−0.03	0.18	0.09	0.17	0.66	0.78
Family size	0.12	0.11	0.24*	0.13	−0.06	0.12	1.06*	0.63
Educational attainment
Middle school	−0.63***	0.17	0.38***	0.19	−0.12	0.20	−2.55***	0.96
High school and above	−0.01	0.18	0.15	0.21	−0.04	0.22	−1.19	0.94
Household income	−0.12***	0.04	−0.08*	0.05	−0.16***	0.05	−0.04	0.25
Living in urban area	0.01	0.11	−0.01	0.12	−0.03	0.13	1.02	0.66
Drinking hard liquor	0.41***	0.1	−0.23**	0.11	−0.19*	0.11	0.05	0.38
Prob > chi2	p < 0.01		p < 0.01		p < 0.01		p < 0.01

*p < 0.1, **p < 0.05,***p < 0.01
“Self-reported health” was recoded into an ordinal variable from 1 to 3 representing the level of health (1 = excellent, very good good; 2 = fair, 3 = poor, very poor)

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