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Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …
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This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …
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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 …
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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 …
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Neoclassical economic theory predicts that policies that discourage the consumption of a particular good will induce innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with the identification of new dominant designs. We...
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In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of commercial smuggling in which some, but not all, firms smuggle a portion of the cigarettes they sell. The model is used to examine the effects on interstate cigarette smuggling of the Contraband Cigarette Act and a change in the federal excise...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze consumer demand in markets with large price uncertainty. We develop a demand model for goods that are subject to habit formation. We show that consumption plans of forward looking individuals depend not only on preferences and current period prices, but also...
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This report describes an easily computable model of the relation between cigarette prices and cigarette consumption in the United States. The model is used to predict the revenue impacts of Federal excise tax hikes ranging from $0.45 to $1.76 per pack
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Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of … designed to make tobacco products less desirable. More recently, the availability of alternative products, most notably e … tobacco regulations, there remains substantial debate regarding their effectiveness, and ultimately, their impact on economic …
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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,...
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