literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation …

the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We …

Are teenage and adult smoking causally related? Recent anti-tobacco policy is predicated on the assumption that … preventing teenagers from smoking will ensure that fewer adults smoke, but direct evidence in support of this assumption is scant … document a strong, positive relationship between teenage and adult smoking: specifically, deterring 10 teenagers from smoking …

smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may more than fully offset any public health gains …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

We examine the potential for reducing cigarette smoking through increases in cigarette excise taxes by estimating the … price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. Using information on individual smoking behavior for a sample of adults in the … that price has its greatest effect on the smoking behavior of young males and that it operates primarily on the decision to …

smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the … 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have …

on pre-pregnancy smoking, prenatal smoking, and birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and Apgar 5 score). We … adoption increases pre-pregnancy and prenatal smoking, implying that e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes are substitutes …, our results suggest that e-cigarettes reduce prenatal smoking, but have no observable benefit towards the goal of …