The authors reply to ' Tobacco and consumption and advertising restrictions'

Chris Meads and Murray Laugesen

This paper is a response by Murray Laugesen and Chris Meads to the article 'Tobacco Consumption and Advertising Restrictions: A Critique of Laugesen and Meads(1991)' by M.

the authors reply to 'Tobacco consumption and advertising restrictions: a critique of laugesen and meads (1991)' by m. j. stewart

Murray LaugesenDepartment of Health, New Zealand andChris Meads Economic Consultant, New Zealand

M. J. Stewart failed to critique the correct data set we sent him. He had two data sets of ours in his possession, and has written a critique (Stewart, 1992) of the earlier data set, data already rejected by us. Stewart's 'Critique of Laugesen and Meads 1991', wrongly titled, critiques our 1991 paper using a 1990 data set. We discarded the 1990 data set...

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