addition to reducing youth smoking, we find that higher cigarette prices significantly reduce the average level of marijuana …

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 …

sanctions for drug possession and sale on youth drug use. Data on cocaine and marijuana use by high school seniors are taken … youth cocaine demand is sensitive to price, with average past year and past month cocaine demand elasticities of -1.28 and … marijuana have a negative and statistically significant impact on youth cocaine and marijuana use. However, the magnitude of …

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 …

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 …

the full price of marijuana. The implications of this substitution for one of the consequences of youth substance abuse …, driving while intoxicated, is examined using information on youth non-fatal accidents taken from the surveys and on youth … effect of an increase in the full price of alcoholic beverages on the probability of a youth traffic crash is negative …