During the 1980's and early 1990's, the cigarette markets in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand were opened to U … capita cigarette consumption is examined. Estimates from fixed effects models indicate that the market share of U … brands produced by domestic monopolies to the brands of U.S. cigarette producers. In addition, simulations based on the …

motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by price or smoking bans. The latent class model identifies three types of …

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 …

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 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 …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after … controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …

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 …

prenatal cigarette smoking rates as a result. We investigate the effect of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on prenatal … cigarette smoking and birth outcomes for underage rural teenagers using data on all births from 2010 to 2016 from 32 states. We … find that e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws increased prenatal smoking in a given trimester by 0.6 percentage points …

advertising in magazines affects cigarette demand at various margins: the probability of menthol use; smoking participation; the … advertisements for menthol cigarettes on cigarette demand. Unlike previous research on cigarette advertising and demand, we use … to control for individual heterogeneity that influences both advertising exposure and cigarette demand. We exploit quasi …

abstinence incentives that serve as partial commitment devices. We find that cigarette smokers overestimate their likelihood of …