Cigarette smoking is concentrated among low income groups. Consequently, cigarette taxes are considered regressive …. However, if poorer individuals are much more price sensitive than richer individuals, then tax increases would reduce smoking …

: excluding the provinces and years where smuggling was greatest; and using household level expenditure data on smoking, where … in the range of -0.45 to -0.47. We also show that the sensitivity of smoking to price is much larger among lower income … Canadians. In the context of recent behavioral models of smoking, whereby higher taxes reduce unwanted smoking among price …

, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually … consumption and that it will take sizable tax increases, on the order of 100%, to decrease adult smoking by as much as 5% …

smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may more than fully offset any public health gains …

smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the … 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have …

on pre-pregnancy smoking, prenatal smoking, and birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and Apgar 5 score). We … adoption increases pre-pregnancy and prenatal smoking, implying that e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes are substitutes …, our results suggest that e-cigarettes reduce prenatal smoking, but have no observable benefit towards the goal of …

manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …

inadequate risk decisions by smokers regarding their own welfare. Detailed calculations of the financial externalities of smoking …