construction of city-specific price and purity series that pay careful attention to the data and incorporate existing knowledge of …

functions for the period from 1975 through 2003. My estimates suggest that changes in price can explain a good deal of the … percent increase in the real price of cigarettes since 1997 due to the Medicaid Master Settlement Agreement explains almost … increase in the real price of beer between 1990 and 1992 due to the Federal excise tax hike on that beverage in 1991 accounts …

Recent studies have shown that efforts to curb alcohol use by increasing the price of alcohol and limiting youth … complements, sot that increasing the price of any one will decrease the demand for marijuana. The results of this paper will help …

price of cigarettes as a way to discourage youths from smoking. One argument used to oppose these bills is that increases in … the price of cigarettes would cause youths to substitute marijuana for cigarettes. Although it has long been believed that …. Examination of the cross-price effects clearly shows that higher cigarette prices will not increase marijuana use among youths. In …