We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the … than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 … smoking is more dangerous. …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

) to estimate the impact of ENDS taxes on youth tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth ENDS consumption, with … cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

We examine the effect of raising the minimum legal sale age of tobacco to 21 (i.e., "T21"). We estimate difference …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe … estimation biases. -- taxes ; smoking ; cigarettes ; addiction …

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …

the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity. -- tobacco …This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to … changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …

) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four … smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013. …

stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … taxes increase the probability that low-income smoking households take-up food stamps. …

Previous researchers have argued that the social market for cigarettes insulates its participants from policies … designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …