This paper examines the frequency of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989. The effects of minimum legal … to changes in prices resulting from higher excise taxes. However, the price sensitivity of youth alcohol use fell after …

tobacco control policies can be effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. The average overall estimated price elasticity … of youth cigarette demand of 1.313 indicates that large increases in cigarette excise taxes would lead to sharp … reductions in youth smoking. Similarly, strong restrictions on smoking in public places would reduce the prevalence of smoking …

several measures of limits on youth access to tobacco products are added to the survey data. Ordered probit methods are used … of demand is -0.65. In addition, strong limits on youth access to smokeless tobacco products are found to be effective in …

the full price of marijuana. The implications of this substitution for one of the consequences of youth substance abuse …, driving while intoxicated, is examined using information on youth non-fatal accidents taken from the surveys and on youth … effect of an increase in the full price of alcoholic beverages on the probability of a youth traffic crash is negative …

sanctions for drug possession and sale on youth drug use. Data on cocaine and marijuana use by high school seniors are taken … youth cocaine demand is sensitive to price, with average past year and past month cocaine demand elasticities of -1.28 and … marijuana have a negative and statistically significant impact on youth cocaine and marijuana use. However, the magnitude of …

variety of outcomes for youth. These include alcohol consumption, excessive consumption, motor vehicle accident mortality, and …

This paper contains the first estimates of the price sensitivity of the prevalence of youth marijuana use. Survey data … significantly to the trends in youth marijuana use between 1982 and 1998, particularly during the contraction in use from 1982 to … 1992. Similarly, changes in youth perceptions of the harms associated with regular marijuana use had a substantial impact …