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The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …
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The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health … sweeping bans on flavored e-cigarettes. In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use … their use of the banned flavored e-cigarettes as well as their overall e-cigarette use, by about two percentage points …
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presents the first regression discontinuity evidence on the effectiveness of e-cigarette MLPA laws. Using data on 12th graders … from Monitoring the Future, we obtain robust evidence that federal and state age-18 MLPAs decreased underage e-cigarette … use by 15-20% and frequent use by 20-40%. These findings suggest that the age-21 federal MLPA could meaningfully reduce e-cigarette …
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The Food and Drug Administration has proposed to prohibit menthol cigarettes, which are smoked by almost 19 million people in the U.S. Illegal markets for menthol cigarettes could not only blunt the prohibition's intended consequence to reduce smoking but could also lead to unintended...
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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 …
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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 …
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cigarette ("e-cigarette") use among teenagers has become a public health concern, with state and local policymakers turning to e-cigarette … taxes as a tool to curb consumption. This paper is the first to explore the spillover effects of e-cigarette taxes on …-in-differences approach, we find that a one-dollar increase in e-cigarette taxes is associated with a 1-to-2 percentage-point reduction in the …
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Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle … improvement in health knowledge related to the GWL. The discrete choice experiment also provides new evidence on how cigarette … prices, e-cigarette prices, and policy-manipulable e-cigarette attributes such as e-cigarette warning labels, and flavor …
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declines in premium cigarette purchases. However, even among the premium consumers with the most to gain from switching, about …
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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 …
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