decrease adult consumption by 3%-5%. A smaller literature on youth responsiveness to cigarette prices has also emerged. A … majority of these studies concluded that youth are up to three times as responsive to price as are adults. Only four … econometric studies have attempted to model youth and young adult smoking initiation decisions. All four studies concluded that …

determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …

After steadily declining over the previous 15 years, youth smoking began to rise precipitously in 1992, and by 1997 had … policies on youth smoking in the 1990s, drawing on three separate data sets. I find that the most important policy determinant … of youth smoking, particularly among older teens, is prices. Prices are a significant and sizeable determinant of smoking …

Nationally representative studies consistently report significant gender and racial differences in youth smoking rates …: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies. Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the … protection laws and restrictions on youth access …

tobacco control policies can be effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. The average overall estimated price elasticity … of youth cigarette demand of 1.313 indicates that large increases in cigarette excise taxes would lead to sharp … reductions in youth smoking. Similarly, strong restrictions on smoking in public places would reduce the prevalence of smoking …