This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy … for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …

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 …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any … estimated ENDS tax elasticities of -0.06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax effects, suggesting …

cigarette and e-cigarette use and sales. We find sizable reductions in e-cigarette and cigarette use for 12th graders. T21 also … reduced cigarette sales by 12.4% and e-cigarette sales by 69.3% in counties with the highest percent quartile of individuals …

longitudinal data from RLMS, estimating a quasi-hyperbolic discounting rational addiction model for young and adult smokers …

and the idea of bans as self-control devices. -- smoking bans ; cigarette prices ; life satisfaction ; addiction ; self … impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life …

In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly … associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the writing of the Surgeon General report …, using quasi-experimental methods, and reach the opposite conclusion. We study contemporaneous and intertemporal effects of e-cigarette …

The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … of cigarette taxes warn that tax hikes will cause youths to substitute toward marijuana. On the other hand, public health … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using …

1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult …