A central parameter for evaluating tax policies is the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. But in many countries … increases, biases upwards the response of legal cigarette sales to price. We surmount this problem through two approaches …: excluding the provinces and years where smuggling was greatest; and using household level expenditure data on smoking, where …

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 …

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 …

reduce smoking but could also lead to unintended consequences. We use data from a discrete choice experiment to estimate a … menthol smokers who attempt to quit. However, our model also predicts a substantial potential consumer demand for illegal … menthol cigarettes. Depending on the impact of illegality on product prices, our model predicts the potential demand-side of …

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 …

We use the universe of birth records in the United States from 2013 to 2017 to examine the effect of e-cigarette taxes … on pre-pregnancy smoking, prenatal smoking, and birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and Apgar 5 score). We … apply a differences-in-differences model to study these questions. We have two principle findings. First, e-cigarette tax …

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 …

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 …

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 …

elasticities. Using data on cigarette tax rates, taxable cigarette sales and individual smoking rates by state from 1980 to 2005 … of taxable cigarette sales to state tax rates that is correlated with the rise of Internet usage within states. The … estimates imply that the increased sensitivity from cigarette smuggling over the Internet has lessened the revenue generating …