presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …

While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

While the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (ST) is low relative to smoking, the distribution of ST use is highly skewed … these tobacco products. Sub-analyses point to some differences in the advertising and tax response across segments of the … overall tobacco harm reduction …

from smoking or using smokeless tobacco that resulted from the 2009 federal tax increase could be much larger given the … resulting higher tobacco prices would deter more and more children from initiating smoking and smokeless tobacco use over time …This study examined the impact of the 2009 federal tobacco excise tax increase on the use of cigarettes and smokeless …

smoking cessation products, based on a new dataset of patents on such products from 1951-2004. We find that an increase in … cigarette tax levels and smoking bans had no discernible impact on the industry-wide rate of invention in smoking cessation …, the introduction of the nicotine gum and patch are estimated to have increased the rate of patenting activity in smoking …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after … controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …