prior to a nationwide menthol ban in 2018. Using provincial sales data, we show that menthol cigarette sales fell to zero … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …

: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies. Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the … in responsiveness to particular tobacco control policies. Smoking rates among white youths are responsive to anti-tobacco …

Heated tobacco products (HTPs), a harm reducing cigarette alternative, gained popularity over the past decade and … suggests a consumer preference for cigarette alternatives, there is a limited understanding of how consumers choose between … different tobacco products. Understanding consumer choice is especially salient given the evolving policy landscape and …

The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the major tobacco companies and 46 states created an abrupt 45 cent (21 …%) 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 …

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 …

Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle … compare tobacco choices (cigarettes, e-cigarettes, quitting) for those presented with a GWL versus the currently existing … improvement in health knowledge related to the GWL. The discrete choice experiment also provides new evidence on how cigarette …

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 …

We use data from the Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey from 2006-2015 to calculate cigarette … price elasticities of demand using four alternative cigarette tax/price measures that compensate for the local tax … local tax environment, and significantly lower elasticities for other popular cigarette price measures. We also find greater …