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manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …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 …
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pregnancy fixed effects models. We show that e-cigarette taxes increase pre-pregnancy smoking, increase prenatal smoking, and …We use the universe of birth records in the United States from 2013 to 2018 to examine the effect of e-cigarette tax … rates on pre-pregnancy smoking and prenatal smoking. We study these questions using two-way fixed effects models and …
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We analyze data about cigarette tax compliance from the first national scale littered cigarette packs collection. We … provide evidence that noncompliance is due to both cross-border shopping and cigarette trafficking. OLS and binomial logit …
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smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may more than fully offset any public health gains … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 ….06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax elasticities, suggesting economic substitution …
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1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult …
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This paper assesses the appropriate cigarette tax needed to address potential market failures. There is no evidence of … inadequate risk decisions by smokers regarding their own welfare. Detailed calculations of the financial externalities of smoking … uncertain, but of potentially substantial magnitude. Even with recognition of these costs, current cigarette taxes exceed the …
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We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with … for his health. We tested whether the smokers, confronted with warnings that were repugnant and threatening to many of … of a cigarette package. These smokers first ranked the two packages solely on the basis of their warnings. Only when the …
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motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by price or smoking bans. The latent class model identifies three types of … concerned about their public health impact and thus are contemplating regulations. We provide empirical evidence to inform such …) health impact, 2) effectiveness in helping smokers quit, 3) bans in public places, and 4) price. We conduct an online …
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abstinence incentives that serve as partial commitment devices. We find that cigarette smokers overestimate their likelihood of …
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between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …
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