result. I hypothesize that people who quit smoking experience a renewed interest in their health, increased confidence in …Economists have begun to debate if the rise in cigarette prices in the U.S. in recent decades has contributed to the … effect to occur gradually over several years leads to the conclusion that a rise in cigarette prices is actually associated …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes … was employed to evaluate: [1] health benefits (premature deaths averted); [2] health expenditures regarding smoking … quintiles. Conclusion: Increasing cigarette tax can provide health and financial benefits, and would be pro-poor in terms of …

of cigarette taxes warn that tax hikes will cause youths to substitute toward marijuana. On the other hand, public health …The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using …

-pregnancy and prenatal smoking. We also show that higher in-utero cigarette taxes have long-lasting effects on adult health, and …This study examines the long-term link between in-utero cigarette taxes and adult prenatal smoking. We use U.S. birth … certificate records to demonstrate that exposure to higher in-utero cigarette taxes (over 1965-2001) reduces later-life adult pre …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any … estimated ENDS tax elasticities of -0.06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax effects, suggesting … public health gains. …