Sloan, Frank A.; Trogdon, Justin G. - EconWPA - 2004
The goal of our empirical analysis is to assess whether the changes in cigarette excise taxes and cigarette prices can … changes the political equilibrium: state cigarette excise taxes were approximately $0.10 higher in the post-MSA period. For … tobacco prices, the increases are attributable to the method the settlement used to structure payments as well as the market …