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 …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use …Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …

from smoking or using smokeless tobacco that resulted from the 2009 federal tax increase could be much larger given the … resulting higher tobacco prices would deter more and more children from initiating smoking and smokeless tobacco use over time …This study examined the impact of the 2009 federal tobacco excise tax increase on the use of cigarettes and smokeless …

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 …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …

state tobacco tax increases of the past 15 years were associated with significant reductions in smoking participation and … most -- but not all -- finding that higher taxes reduce youth consumption of tobacco. We advance the literature by using … relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We …

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 …

cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … 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 …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after … controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …