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 …

smoking cessation products, based on a new dataset of patents on such products from 1951-2004. We find that an increase in … cigarette tax levels and smoking bans had no discernible impact on the industry-wide rate of invention in smoking cessation …, the introduction of the nicotine gum and patch are estimated to have increased the rate of patenting activity in smoking …

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed under the competing hypotheses that smoking is not addictive or that … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking …

While the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (ST) is low relative to smoking, the distribution of ST use is highly skewed …

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 …

The one-third rise in the teen smoking rate in the 1990s has led to considerable interest in understanding the … determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … of smoking participation, and find that smoking participation is not simply concentrated among the most disadvantaged …

amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by …