estimating the effects of cigarette taxes on youth smoking with data from the 1992-1996 Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program, 1991 … implemented a 40-60% reduction to cigarette excise taxes in February 1994. We exploit this unique and discrete policy shock by … General Social Survey, 1994 Youth Smoking Survey, 1996-1997 and 1998-1999 National population Health Surveys, and the 1999 …

price- or tax-based policies. Smokers considering quitting smoking respond in expected ways to changing cigarette prices and …Using state-level data for the United States, this study uniquely examines the effects of cigarette prices and income … on seven dimensions of smoking behaviour. Results show that income-based policies are relatively more effective than …