Bans on menthol cigarettes have been recommended by the World Health Organization, adopted throughout the European … cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … provide the first comprehensive evaluation of this policy by studying Canada where seven provinces banned menthol cigarettes …

controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …

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

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 …

designed to make tobacco products less desirable. More recently, the availability of alternative products, most notably e-cigarettes …Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of … tobacco regulations, there remains substantial debate regarding their effectiveness, and ultimately, their impact on economic …

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

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … of alcohol, as measured by a weighted average of the price of alcohol from beer, wine, and liquor, will serve to reduce …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own … Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices and policies to the individual records. The size of this data set … to reduce substance abuse have been oriented towards increasing the price of alcohol and illicit drugs. Little, however …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … markets in the United States and includes 1200 observations. Since motor vehicle fatalities and alcohol advertising are … also estimated to predict the effect of changes in the price of advertising. The regression results show that alcohol …