Tobaccos and cigarettes are legal drugs. These are ordinaries and necessaries goods too. This means that the useful of tributary policy in smoking control is better while the absolute value of the elasticity of price from the demand would be closest to one. In smoking researches there are two main variables: the smoker number and the consumption intensity. In the socioeconomic context about smoking the smoker number keep a lineal relation with costs and benefits attributable to smoking. In the consumption intensity case the relation is lineal front of the benefits and increasing accelerated front of the costs. This knowledge since the Microeconomic may obtain a better understanding about socioeconomics subjects about the morbidity attributable to smoking.
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