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majority of consumers perceive e-cigarettes to be relatively and absolutely riskier than cigarettes. From our estimated e-cigarette … demand models, we conclude that the information shock reduced e-cigarette demand by about 30 percent. We also estimate that …
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Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality -- not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first...
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We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with … of a cigarette package. These smokers first ranked the two packages solely on the basis of their warnings. Only when the …
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longitudinal statistical associations between e-cigarette use and long-term respiratory disease. We are able to closely replicate … tobacco, we find no evidence that current or former e-cigarette use is associated with respiratory disease. The statistical … associations between e-cigarette use and respiratory disease are driven by e-cigarette users who are also current or former smokers …
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A small but rapidly growing percentage of the U.S. population uses e-cigarettes. Policymakers, especially the FDA, are concerned about their public health impact and thus are contemplating regulations. We provide empirical evidence to inform such policy choices. Specifically, we examine how the...
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Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle … improvement in health knowledge related to the GWL. The discrete choice experiment also provides new evidence on how cigarette … prices, e-cigarette prices, and policy-manipulable e-cigarette attributes such as e-cigarette warning labels, and flavor …
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The paper analyzes consumption decisions of retired workers, using Danish register data. A major puzzle, which motivates much of the analysis below, is that wealth actually increases for a large fraction of the people in our data. One would expect that wealth accumulated before retirement would...
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declines in premium cigarette purchases. However, even among the premium consumers with the most to gain from switching, about …
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prior to a nationwide menthol ban in 2018. Using provincial sales data, we show that menthol cigarette sales fell to zero … 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 …
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We examine the importance of information source (the 'messenger') on consumer choice in the context of cigarettes, electronic and tobacco. We proxy choice with intentions to use cigarettes and risk perceptions. We experimentally vary the messenger across three information sources: government,...
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