, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways …-in-differences technique to estimate the association between tax increases and cigarette consumption. Estimates indicate that, for adults, the … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually …

, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways …-in-differences technique to estimate the association between tax increases and cigarette consumption. Estimates indicate that, for adults, the … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe … estimation biases. -- taxes ; smoking ; cigarettes ; addiction …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate … the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity. -- tobacco …