Table 1.

Cigarette retail prices in China by tier, 2009

Grade	Tier	Retail Price (¥/Pack)	Producer Profit (%)	Retail Profit (%)	Smoker-years (N)	Smoker-years (%)
1		[29.76, ∞)	51.5	15.0	59	0.7
2	1	[18.95, 29.76)	40.8	15.0	150	1.8
3		[8.97, 18.95)	33.3	15.0	955	11.3
4	2	[5.15, 8.97)	33.3	10.0	2,345	27.7
5	3	[2.65, 5.15)	25.0	10.0	3,830	45.3
6	4	[0, 2.65)	17.6	10.0	1,114	13.2
					8,453	100.0

Note: Retail price ranges are calculated according to the formula (Gao, Zheng, and Hu, 2011): Retail Price = Allocation Price × (1 + Producer π) × (1 + Retail π) × (1 + VAT), where π denotes profit and VAT is the value-added tax. The ranges for profits come from Gao, Zheng, and Hu (2011). For retail price ranges, a bracket denotes a closed interval, and a parenthesis denotes an open interval. Tiers 4–6 are combined for analysis due to small cell sizes. Cell counts and proportions are survey weighted. The unweighted sample size is 8,552 person-years from 3,477 smokers.