pregnancy fixed effects models. We show that e-cigarette taxes increase pre-pregnancy smoking, increase prenatal smoking, and … rates on pre-pregnancy smoking and prenatal smoking. We study these questions using two-way fixed effects models and … lower smoking cessation during pregnancy. These findings imply that e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes are substitutes …

We study the effects of traditional cigarette tax rate changes and e-cigarette tax adoption on use of these products … among U.S. adults. Data are drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey … data over the period 2011 to 2017. Using a differences-in-differences model, we find that higher traditional cigarette …

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 …

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 …

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 … between cigarettes and e-cigarettes for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent cigarette …

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 …

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 …

-in-differences technique to estimate the association between tax increases and cigarette consumption. Estimates indicate that, for adults, the … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually …There is a general consensus among policymakers that raising tobacco taxes reduces cigarette consumption. However …

%) increase in cigarette prices in November, 1998. Earlier estimates of the elasticity of prenatal smoking implied that the price … rise would reduce prenatal cigarette smoking by 7% to 21%. Using birth records on 10 million U.S. births between January … 1996 and February 2000, we examined the change in smoking during pregnancy and conditional smoking intensity in response to …

Recent analyses suggest that cigarette excise taxes lower prenatal smoking. It is unclear, however, whether the … that direct financial incentives to stop smoking during and after pregnancy should be considered … association between taxes and prenatal smoking represents a decline among women of reproductive age or a particular response by …