Cotti, Chad; DeCicca, Philip; Nesson, Erik T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self-reported and biomarker measures of tobacco use, to examine the effects of state-level tobacco 21 (T21) laws on smoking and vaping. T21 laws reduce self-reported cigarette smoking...