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 …

initiation that include state fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette …

While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

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 …

Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of …, includes cigarette taxation, place-based smoking bans in areas ranging from bars and restaurants to workplaces, and regulations … designed to make tobacco products less desirable. More recently, the availability of alternative products, most notably e …

Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … use, including regulation of economic availability through increases in cigarette excise taxes. In contrast, the effects … presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …

of cross-price effects in cigarette and alcohol consumption. We use individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor … Surveillance System to investigate cigarette and alcohol consumption in the US, estimating both own and cross-price elasticities … consumption and smoking participation (suggesting a complementarity in consumption), while higher cigarette prices tend to …

While much is known about the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking participation and frequency … of cigarette use, little is known about their impacts on smoking cessation. This paper addresses the dynamics of smoking …

Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on … cigarette price and policy-related measures to estimate smoking cessation equations for young adult males and females separately …. The estimates clearly indicate that increases in cigarette prices would lead a significant number of young adults to quit …

Adult Tobacco Survey and the Nielsen Homescan Panel. We find that the increase in relative prices led to substantial … declines in premium cigarette purchases. However, even among the premium consumers with the most to gain from switching, about …