initiation that include state fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette …

prior to a nationwide menthol ban in 2018. Using provincial sales data, we show that menthol cigarette sales fell to zero … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …

Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of …, includes cigarette taxation, place-based smoking bans in areas ranging from bars and restaurants to workplaces, and regulations … designed to make tobacco products less desirable. More recently, the availability of alternative products, most notably e …

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 …

Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … use, including regulation of economic availability through increases in cigarette excise taxes. In contrast, the effects … presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …

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 …

The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on … three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time … in more concentrated markets. Our estimates confirm that greater instability of government tax revenues from cigarette …

Previous studies estimate the average effect of cigarette price on body mass index (BMI), with recent research showing …-run impact of cigarette price on BMI by performing quantile regressions and stratifying the sample by race, education, age, and … sex. Cigarette price has a highly heterogeneous negative effect that is more than three times as strong at high BMI levels …

We estimate effects of e-cigarette taxes enacted in eight states and two large counties on e-cigarette prices, e-cigarette … sales, and sales of other tobacco products. We use Nielsen Retail Scanner data from 2011 to 2017, comprising approximately … 35,000 retailers nationally. We develop a method to standardize e-cigarette taxes as adopting localities have taxed these …

We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with … of a cigarette package. These smokers first ranked the two packages solely on the basis of their warnings. Only when the …