The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: that smoking increases health care … costs, and that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity. Some researchers have … hypothesized that these two facts, in combination, allow the inference that restricting smoking will lower health care costs. For a …

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …

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% …

percentage of students who reported smoking in the past 30 days dropped between 9.7% and 13.3% immediately following the tax … 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 …

While the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (ST) is low relative to smoking, the distribution of ST use is highly skewed …

(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 … state tobacco tax increases of the past 15 years were associated with significant reductions in smoking participation and …

discourage alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. One striking finding is that a policy to raise the Federal excise tax on beer in …