tobacco products among youth using the Monitoring the Future survey, a nationally representative survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th … percentage of students who reported smoking in the past 30 days dropped between 9.7% and 13.3% immediately following the tax … United States in May 2009 had the federal tax not increased in April 2009. The long-term projected number of youth prevented …

(Add Health) to examine the impact of tobacco taxes on smoking. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in response to …

relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We … estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey …Several studies have examined the effects of state cigarette tax increases on youth substance use over the 1990s, with …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …

) 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 …

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), this study explores the impact of ENDS taxes on youth … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 …

We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U ….S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking … informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting family smoking game,' with each sibling's smoking endogenous, may have …

manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …

, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually … consumption and that it will take sizable tax increases, on the order of 100%, to decrease adult smoking by as much as 5% …