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ArticleTobacco control2025

Improving estimates of the illicit cigarette trade through collaboration: lessons from two studies of Malaysia.

Ridzuan Kunji Koya, J Robert Branston, Allen W A Gallagher, Wency Kher Thinng Bui, Hana Ross, Norashidah Mohamed Nor

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Article in Tobacco control, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ridzuan Kunji KoyaDepartment for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9247-5537
J Robert BranstonSchool of Management, University of Bath, Bath, UK J.R.Branston@bath.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2332-2403
Allen W A GallagherDepartment for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3669-0360
Wency Kher Thinng BuiSchool of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-9972-9648
Hana RossUniversity of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5799-1915
Norashidah Mohamed NorSchool of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-8961-9261

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper critically analyses contrasting estimates of Malaysia's illicit cigarette trade in 2011, 2015 and 2019 by Bui

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CommerceCrimeTaxesTobacco ProductsCooperative BehaviorHumansMalaysiaeconomicsillegal tobacco productslow/middle income countrytaxationtobacco industry

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PMID38233111
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