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used to model multiple cessation attempts of young adults. The estimates indicate that increases in the price of cigarettes … remain smoke- free after at least one prior cessation attempt. The average price elasticity of cessation is 0.343. In …
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cigarette price and policy-related measures to estimate smoking cessation equations for young adult males and females separately …
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Bans on menthol cigarettes have been recommended by the World Health Organization, adopted throughout the European Union, and proposed by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), primarily due to concerns that menthol cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct...
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-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from various data resources. We provide strong evidence that the price gap … share of ad valorem tax in total excise tax leads to about a 4 to 5 percent increase in the price gap, with a smaller impact …
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messages, and compliance with youth access restrictions. We find that cigarette price is an important determinant of both … smoking participation and conditional demand. The estimated price elasticity of participation is -0.63. The likelihood of … participation decreases with anti-smoking sentiment and increases with exposure to cigarette advertising. The estimated price …
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controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant … initiation that include state fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette …
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during the past decade. Price uncertainty has a potentially large impact on the economic well-being of young individuals with … relatively low levels of disposable income. We develop a model to study consumption of addictive substances under price …
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the number of people smoking and the frequency with which individuals smoke. The estimated overall average price …
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response to earn cigarette puffs. Changing the number of responses required per puff is conceptualized as a price manipulation …. Our experiments show that these price increases decrease cigarette consumption and that price elasticity of demand … increases with increases in price. When from 74 different smokers, participating in 17 different experiments, in our laboratory …
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the price elasticity of demand for each observation and report the average price elasticity across all observations or … report the price elasticity of demand at the mean of the price variable. Policy makers rely on these average price elasticity … estimates for public health and revenue generation purposes. The use of an average price elasticity may yield misleading …
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