menthol use and smoking behaviors, many quitting behaviors, and cigarette purchase behaviors. Although menthol use is much … more common among Black smokers, Blacks are less likely to be current smokers, and conditional on current smoking Blacks … are less likely to be daily smokers, are less likely to have started smoking before age 18, smoke fewer cigarettes per day …

Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle …. The constitutionality depends, in part, on the likely impact of GWLs on smoking decisions, and whether they generate … knowledge as opposed to emotional reactions against smoking. Using an online discrete choice stated preference experiment we …

We study the effects of traditional cigarette tax rate changes and e-cigarette tax adoption on use of these products … data over the period 2011 to 2017. Using a differences-in-differences model, we find that higher traditional cigarette … taxes reduce adult traditional cigarette use and increase adult e-cigarette use, suggesting that the products are economic …

Heated tobacco products (HTPs), a harm reducing cigarette alternative, gained popularity over the past decade and … appear to have contributed significantly to the reduction of smoking in Japan. While the increased popularity of HTPs … suggests a consumer preference for cigarette alternatives, there is a limited understanding of how consumers choose between …

smoking than raising cigarette taxes … find that the enactment of a statewide T-21 law was associated with a 2.5 to 4.0 percentage-point decline in smoking …), we find that statewide T-21 laws reduced tobacco cigarette and electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) consumption among 18 …

In this paper we investigate how direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceutical products in affected by … pharmaceutical market -- the market for smoking cessation products. Because of their proven effectiveness, these products could be … the key to meeting public health goals to reduce smoking. However, in many ways, smoking cessation products have been more …

While the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (ST) is low relative to smoking, the distribution of ST use is highly skewed … the national level, of the effects of magazine advertising on ST use. The focus on magazine advertising is significant …-specific advertising information over the sample period. This allows detailed and salient measures of advertising exposure at the …

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 …

first causal evidence on whether e-cigarette advertising on television and in magazines (which comprise about 90% of total …-cigarettes will draw cigarette smokers away from a dangerous habit or lure new initiates into tobacco use. We provide some of the … advertising but no for magazine advertising. Our results indicate that a policy to ban TV advertising of e-cigarettes would have …

research on the effects of price increases on cigarette consumption. Because excise tax is a component of price, the resultant … literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory … research and several equity and efficiency concerns accompanying cigarette taxation debates. It includes economic analysis of …