Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … economic substitution between cigarettes and ENDS for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent … cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

estimating the effects of cigarette taxes on youth smoking with data from the 1992-1996 Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program, 1991 … General Social Survey, 1994 Youth Smoking Survey, 1996-1997 and 1998-1999 National population Health Surveys, and the 1999 … analysis of lower taxes on a panel of 591 youths from the Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program, who did not smoke in 1993, but …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

-price elasticities of demand between e-cigarettes and cigarettes, suggesting they are economic substitutes. Other analyses explore … heterogeneity in tax and price responses across flavored and non-flavored e-cigarettes and cigarettes …

Cigarettes are a legal product. People who use cigarettes usually strongly prefer them. The high taxes imposed on … cigarettes in various states create profit opportunities for those willing to buy them in low-tax states and ship them to high … black market for cheap cigarettes and leads to interstate smuggling. Key takeaways: (1) Cigarette taxes have increased over …

proportion of adults who smoke cigarettes daily by approximately one percentage point, translating to 2.5 million extra adult …

public places on the demand for cigarettes when the influence of social norms against smoking is also taken into account …This study examines the effectiveness of regulations such as advertising bans for tobacco products and smoking bans in …. Implementing comprehensive bans can change smoking norms and therefore have indirect impacts that persist over time. The paper uses …

anti-smoking policies and to estimate the implications for the policy efficacy. Firms are modeled as coordinating in price … increasing the tobacco tax reduces both the overall smoking rate and the youth smoking rate, while advertising restrictions may … back fire and actually increase the youth smoking rate. Furthermore, the long run effects of anti-smoking policies on …

. A counterfactual experiment of a complete advertising ban predicts a 2% reduction in smoking rate …