, the models show that the price elasticities of demand range from -2.117 to -1.494. In a rapidly evolving e-cigarette …

Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle …. The constitutionality depends, in part, on the likely impact of GWLs on smoking decisions, and whether they generate … knowledge as opposed to emotional reactions against smoking. Using an online discrete choice stated preference experiment we …

E-cigarette licensure laws (ELLs) require retailers to obtain a state license to sell e-cigarettes over the counter …

The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health … sweeping bans on flavored e-cigarettes. In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use … their use of the banned flavored e-cigarettes as well as their overall e-cigarette use, by about two percentage points …

cigarette smoking. Finally, there is no evidence that ENDS flavor restrictions affect ENDS use among adults aged 21 and older or …

menthol use and smoking behaviors, many quitting behaviors, and cigarette purchase behaviors. Although menthol use is much … more common among Black smokers, Blacks are less likely to be current smokers, and conditional on current smoking Blacks … are less likely to be daily smokers, are less likely to have started smoking before age 18, smoke fewer cigarettes per day …

Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Because e-cigarettes do not involve the combustion of … tobacco, vaping offers the potential to prevent most of the health consequences of smoking. We study the impact of an … perceptions and vaping and smoking behavior; and national aggregate time-series sales data. We find that after the outbreak …

presents the first regression discontinuity evidence on the effectiveness of e-cigarette MLPA laws. Using data on 12th graders … from Monitoring the Future, we obtain robust evidence that federal and state age-18 MLPAs decreased underage e-cigarette … use by 15-20% and frequent use by 20-40%. These findings suggest that the age-21 federal MLPA could meaningfully reduce e-cigarette …

Australia had adopted a novel approach to e-cigarette policy by requiring a physician's prescription to lawfully obtain … of illegal e-cigarette markets. We estimate that the average utility loss from an illegal retail market is worth AU$7 …-benefit analyses of possible reforms to Australian e-cigarette regulation. In aggregate, we estimate that the benefits of allowing but …