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

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …

Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $1000 annually on cigarettes. For … households in which some members smoke, smoking expenditures crowd-out other purchases, which may affect other household members …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … restricting smoking in workplaces or other public places appear to discourage both cigarette and snuff use, though less …

This paper examines effectiveness of several tobacco control policies in discouraging cigarette smoking among youths …. These policies include increased cigarette excise taxes (which result in higher cigarette prices), restrictions on smoking … tobacco control policies can be effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. The average overall estimated price elasticity …

While much is known about the effects of prices and tobacco control policies on cigarette smoking, relatively little is …

percentage of students who reported smoking in the past 30 days dropped between 9.7% and 13.3% immediately following the tax … from smoking or using smokeless tobacco that resulted from the 2009 federal tax increase could be much larger given the … resulting higher tobacco prices would deter more and more children from initiating smoking and smokeless tobacco use over time …

find that the enactment of a statewide T-21 law was associated with a 2.5 to 4.0 percentage-point decline in smoking … smoking than raising cigarette taxes …

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 …