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Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a "gateway" to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. This study is the first to explore the effects of ENDS taxes on substance use. We...
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tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 ….06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax elasticities, suggesting economic substitution … between cigarettes and e-cigarettes for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent cigarette …
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1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult …
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We use the universe of birth records in the United States from 2013 to 2017 to examine the effect of e-cigarette taxes … on pre-pregnancy smoking, prenatal smoking, and birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and Apgar 5 score). We … apply a differences-in-differences model to study these questions. We have two principle findings. First, e-cigarette tax …
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manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on … three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time …
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This paper assesses the appropriate cigarette tax needed to address potential market failures. There is no evidence of … inadequate risk decisions by smokers regarding their own welfare. Detailed calculations of the financial externalities of smoking … uncertain, but of potentially substantial magnitude. Even with recognition of these costs, current cigarette taxes exceed the …
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We analyze data about cigarette tax compliance from the first national scale littered cigarette packs collection. We … provide evidence that noncompliance is due to both cross-border shopping and cigarette trafficking. OLS and binomial logit …
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, the models show that the price elasticities of demand range from -2.117 to -1.494. In a rapidly evolving e-cigarette …
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E-cigarette licensure laws (ELLs) require retailers to obtain a state license to sell e-cigarettes over the counter …
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The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health … sweeping bans on flavored e-cigarettes. In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use … their use of the banned flavored e-cigarettes as well as their overall e-cigarette use, by about two percentage points …
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