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In this article New York City's health commissioner believes that the demand for cigarettes is price elastic and that with a high enough increase in price, there will be a large decrease in demand. This is contrary to the the notion that addictive goods have inelastic price elasticity of demand.

The demand for plastics has increased and is expected to grow even stronger due to the eradication of taxes by the government, which has logically lowered prices. Elasticity is here referred to as demand for plastic increases due to the decrease in prices. However, plastics industry fears a decrease in demand if taxes are re-established; referring to elasticity as well.

This article promotes Portugal as a place where to buy houses for summer and holidays; it refers to elasticity as the propaganda views that during holidays there will probably be an increase in demand due to the remanining accessible prices of houses in Porto and Lisbon. Since prices are good, demand at summer will tend to increase.

With growing health concerns like obesity and diabetes, the US government is considering placing an additional tax on sugary drinks. The profits from the tax could go to fund health care initiatives. Soda is fairly price elastic - if the price were to change drastically, the demand for it would most likely decrease. So, either people will immediately curb their appetite, or the government will take the additional profits from the tax to educate the population about the adverse effects of sugar overdose.

This article is about how the financial crisis of 2008 has affected the market for luxury yachts in the Middle East. The article reports that sales of leisure boats are expected to plunge up to 75% as people are less willing to splurge on luxury goods. This shows that the YED for luxury yachts is relatively elastic, as the loss of income resulting from the crisis has caused a greater than proportional change in quantity demanded.

This article from the Ennhar Online shows the relative inelasticity of demand for cigarettes and tobacco in Algeria. The government has increased the price of cigarettes, tobacco and chewing tobacco several times, as well as imposing a hefty tax on importing and producing tobacco related goods. However, this has had little effect on the people of Algeria, who continue to smoke despite increasing prices. Because tobacco is an addictive substance, this has caused the PED to be inelastic.

This articals explains how seafood at a large canadian seafood company try to keep steady prices with a very inacurate knoledge of what fish will be caught and the demand on that determined by price of the amount of fish in the stores. Currency can rapidly rise and fall in canada for fish markets suffer.