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Determinants of Smoking Cessation : An Analysis of Young Adult Men and Women

Tauras, John A. - 1999

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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Price, Clean Indoor Air, and Cigarette Smoking : Evidence from the Longitudinal Data for Young Adults

Tauras, John A. - 1999

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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An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1998

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 …

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Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1996

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 …

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Public Policy and Youth Smokeless Tobacco Use

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1996

several measures of limits on youth access to tobacco products are added to the survey data. Ordered probit methods are used … of demand is -0.65. In addition, strong limits on youth access to smokeless tobacco products are found to be effective in …

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Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Among Young Adults

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1995

The effects of cigarette prices and tobacco control policies (including restrictions on smoking in public places and limits on the availability of tobacco products to youths) on cigarette smoking among youths and young adults are estimated using data from a nationally representative survey of...

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Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette Smoking

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1990

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior, demand equations are derived accounting for the tolerance, reinforcement, and withdrawal characteristic of addictive consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed...

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