The effect of excise tax and anti-smoking policies on consumption of cigarettes in the Czech Republic

The issue of smoking was discussed a lot in the past decades. Countries all over the world try to lower the consumption of cigarettes by a lot of various means. This thesis examines the relationship between excise tax and also a few anti-smoking measures and consumption of cigarettes in Czech Republic. To find out if there is some influence, we are building two econometric models. According to both models, there is no statistically significant relationship between the consumption of cigarettes and the excise tax, commercials ban or antismoking campaigns of EU. It is probably caused by not enough observations. In addition, we found effect of frontloading connected to an increase of excise tax