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 … and persistence of youth smoking …

This paper reexamines whether higher cigarette taxes will substantially reduce youth smoking. We study the impact of … effects in models of the onset of smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, models of the onset of heavy smoking between … perspective on the relationship between smoking and schooling: students who eventually drop out of school are already more likely …