determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …

After steadily declining over the previous 15 years, youth smoking began to rise precipitously in 1992, and by 1997 had … policies on youth smoking in the 1990s, drawing on three separate data sets. I find that the most important policy determinant … of youth smoking, particularly among older teens, is prices. Prices are a significant and sizeable determinant of smoking …

While much is known about the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking participation and frequency … of cigarette use, little is known about their impacts on smoking cessation. This paper addresses the dynamics of smoking … increase the probability of initial smoking cessation as well as subsequent cessation for those individuals who are unable to …

smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other … influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Monitoring the Future Surveys, augmented with … cigarette price and policy-related measures to estimate smoking cessation equations for young adult males and females separately …

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 …

equals -1.4. It follows that, if future reductions in youth smoking are desired, an increase in the Federal excise tax is a …, which resulted in the airing of anti-smoking messages on radio and television from July 1, 1967 to January 1, 1971,and (3 …) the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970, which banned pro-smoking cigarette advertising on radio and television …

This paper estimates the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking in lower-income countries using data from the … Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). Country-level heterogeneity is addressed with fixed effects and by directly controlling … for confounding environmental factors such as local anti-smoking sentiment, cigarette advertising, anti-smoking media …

(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 …