Are teenage and adult smoking causally related? Recent anti-tobacco policy is predicated on the assumption that … preventing teenagers from smoking will ensure that fewer adults smoke, but direct evidence in support of this assumption is scant … document a strong, positive relationship between teenage and adult smoking: specifically, deterring 10 teenagers from smoking …

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), this study explores the impact of ENDS taxes on youth … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 …

(Add Health) to examine the impact of tobacco taxes on smoking. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in response to …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …

relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We … estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey …Several studies have examined the effects of state cigarette tax increases on youth substance use over the 1990s, with …

) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four …Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008 … cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth …

tobacco products among youth using the Monitoring the Future survey, a nationally representative survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th … percentage of students who reported smoking in the past 30 days dropped between 9.7% and 13.3% immediately following the tax … United States in May 2009 had the federal tax not increased in April 2009. The long-term projected number of youth prevented …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, the National Survey on Drug Use …