Abstract:This study aims to determine the effect of smoking behavior as measured by the tendency to smoke or not, gender, age and education on health expenditures in West Sumatra. In this study, the data used was the West Sumatra Susenas Data in 2020. The data was obtained from the Central Statistics Agency of West Sumatra. The analytical method used is Tobit Regression which is processed using the Stata program. The results of hypothesis testing found that the ratio of smokers had a negative and significant effect on … Show more
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