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 …

: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies. Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the … in responsiveness to particular tobacco control policies. Smoking rates among white youths are responsive to anti-tobacco …

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 …

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

dissuasive tools. We examine violations of this assumption in a particular policy domain: discouraging smoking with cigarette … in cigarette consumption in a manner that could be confused with price effects. Our results suggest that price effects …

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 …

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 …

not contain the toxins that are found in tobacco smoke. Because e-cigarettes provide an experience that is very similar to … is very little causal evidence to date on how e-cigarette use impacts smoking cessation among adults. Although there is … evidence on how e-cigarette taxes impact adult smokers, exploiting the large tax increase in Minnesota. That state was the …

.S. experienced an outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injuries (EVALI). The EVALI outbreak created an information … CDC recommendation changed to emphasize the role of THC e-cigarette products, e-cigarette risk perceptions were partially …