Examinar los cambios en la prevalencia de con-sumo de alcohol y tabaco antes y durante la pandemia de Covid-19 en México. Se utilizaron datos de las Ensanut 2018 y 2020 para adolescentes y adultos y se obtuvieron prevalencias de consumo actual y excesivo de alcohol y de fumadores actuales y exfumadores.

In Mexico, smoking is a public health problem that claims 43,000 lives each year and causes numerous non-communicable diseases. According to the National Survey on Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Consumption (ENCODAT), in 2017, 17.4 percent of the population aged 12 to 65 were smokers, and between 2011 and 2017, smoking increased particularly among 12 to...

La mejor manera de combatir la epidemia del tabaquismo es mediante el incremento de los impuestos especiales. De esta forma el precio final de venta de una cajetilla de cigarros también se eleva y es menos accesible a la compra. Dicha medida no solo contribuye a reducir el consumo de cigarrillos, sino que además incrementa...

This paper measures the effect of excise taxes on specific goods for Mexican households. A semi-parametric quantile approach is used with a functional relationship to explain the payments of excise taxes for five category goods (high-calorie food, alcohol, tobacco, gasoline and diesel and others), using household consumption microdata in per capita units and attributes of...