While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …

cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after … controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …

Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA) under which the … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by …

Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $1000 annually on cigarettes. For … households in which some members smoke, smoking expenditures crowd-out other purchases, which may affect other household members …, as well as the smoker. We empirically analyze how expenditures on tobacco crowd out consumption of other goods …

This paper examines effectiveness of several tobacco control policies in discouraging cigarette smoking among youths … tobacco control policies can be effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. The average overall estimated price elasticity …, limits on youth access to tobacco products appear to have little impact on youth cigarette smoking. This is most likely the …

While much is known about the effects of prices and tobacco control policies on cigarette smoking, relatively little is … known about their impact on smokeless tobacco use. This paper addresses these issues using data on smokeless tobacco use by … adolescent males taken from the 1992, 1993, and 1994 Monitoring the Future Surveys. Site-specific smokeless tobacco tax data and …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …