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Kidane, A., Mduma, J., Naho, A., & Hu, T. W. (2015). Impact of Smoking on Nutrition and the Food Poverty Level in Tanzania. Journal of poverty alleviation and international development, 6(1), 131-149.
Kidane, Asmerom, et al. "Impact of Smoking on Nutrition and the Food Poverty Level in Tanzania." Journal of poverty alleviation and international development vol. 6,1 (2015): 131-149.
Kidane A, Mduma J, Naho A, Hu TW. Impact of Smoking on Nutrition and the Food Poverty Level in Tanzania. J Poverty Alleviation Int Dev. 2015 Jun;6(1):131-149. PMID: 27668188; PMCID: PMC5034938.
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J Poverty Alleviation Int Dev. 2015 Jun;6(1):131-149.

Impact of Smoking on Nutrition and the Food Poverty Level in Tanzania.

Journal of poverty alleviation and international development

Asmerom Kidane, John Mduma, Alexis Naho, Teh Wei Hu

Affiliations

  1. Asmerom Kidane is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Econometrics from Pennsylvania State University in 1973. John Mduma holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam. Alexis Naho is currently a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam (2008). Teh wei Hu is a world renowned Health Economist with hundreds of publications in international journals to his credit. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin. He held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is professor emeritus at the University of California, and affiliated with the Public Health Institute (PHI) in Oakland, California.

PMID: 27668188 PMCID: PMC5034938

Abstract

This study considers the effect of household cigarette expenditure on food poverty indicators in Tanzania. We first compare expenditure patterns as well as the household size of non-smokers and smokers. We find that the majority of non-smokers and smokers have low incomes, and that the mean total per capita expenditure (proxy for income) of non-smokers is slightly higher than those of smokers. On the other hand, the mean household size of non-smokers was smaller compared to that of smokers suggesting that smokers should have spent more on food. Next, we estimate and compare daily calorie intake between both groups. Almost 19 percent of non-smokers were found to be below the poverty line. The corresponding value for smokers was almost 24 percent. Estimates from a multiple linear regression on the determinants of per capita daily calorie intake reveal that per capita cigarette consumption appears to negatively affect daily calorie intake significantly. Given that the majority of all respondents belong to a low income group, this suggests that expenditure on cigarettes may be at the expense of calorie intake.

Keywords: Calories; Nutrition; Poverty; Smoking; Tanzania

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