Using Search Query Surveillance to Monitor Tax Avoidance and Smoking Cessation following the United States' 2009 “SCHIP” Cigarette Tax Increase

John W. Ayers; Kurt Ribisl; John S. Brownstein

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016777

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Using Search Query Surveillance to Monitor Tax Avoidance and Smoking Cessation following the United States' 2009 “SCHIP” Cigarette Tax Increase

John W. Ayers ,

* E-mail: jayers@jhsph.edu

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Kurt Ribisl,

Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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John S. Brownstein

Affiliation Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Using Search Query Surveillance to Monitor Tax Avoidance and Smoking Cessation following the United States' 2009 “SCHIP” Cigarette Tax Increase

John W. Ayers,
Kurt Ribisl,
John S. Brownstein

Published: March 16, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016777

About the Authors

John W. Ayers

* E-mail: jayers@jhsph.edu

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, San Diego, California, United States of America

Kurt Ribisl

Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John S. Brownstein

Affiliation Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: JW A KMR JSB. Wrote the paper: JWA KMR JSB. Conceived and designed the study: JWA KMR JSB.

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