Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … adopted ENDS taxes. We use two large national surveys (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System …) to estimate the impact of ENDS taxes on youth tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth ENDS consumption, with …

smoke relative to boys, even after we control for parental, sibling, and peer smoking. Importantly, we uncover similar … patterns when analyzing other risky behaviors such as drinking or smoking marijuana. This reinforces the idea that more gender …-equal social norms may come at an extra cost to women's health, as they increasingly engage in risky behaviors (beyond smoking …

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults … in Germany. -- Smoking ; lone parent ; childhood family structure ; divorce ; unobserved heterogeneity …

) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four …Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008 … cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth …

consumption goods involved (smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol) and their role as anxiety reducing goods which suggests that …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to … design campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls. -- smoking ; cigarettes …

designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their cigarettes. Our estimates suggest that tax increases reduce youth … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …