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Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand …
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While much is known about the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking participation and frequency of cigarette use, little is known about their impacts on smoking cessation. This paper addresses the dynamics of smoking cessation using longitudinal data on young adults from...
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Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses...
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Recent studies have shown that efforts to curb alcohol use by increasing the price of alcohol and limiting youth …
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addition to reducing youth smoking, we find that higher cigarette prices significantly reduce the average level of marijuana …
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The upward trend in cigarette smoking among teenagers throughout the 1990's has spurred a great deal of interest on how to discourage young people from smoking. This paper attempts to inform policy makers by providing evidence on the effects cigarette prices (which can be increased through...
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variety of outcomes for youth. These include alcohol consumption, excessive consumption, motor vehicle accident mortality, and …
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This paper estimates the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking in lower-income countries using data from the … Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). Country-level heterogeneity is addressed with fixed effects and by directly controlling … messages, and compliance with youth access restrictions. We find that cigarette price is an important determinant of both …
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In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … influence on smoking participation; and state anti-smoking sentiment appears to be a potentially important influence on youth … demand by youth and young adult smokers …
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