not have had a statistically significant impact on cigarette sales. The own price elasticity of cigarette demand in Canada … opportunities for reducing smoking in Canada through higher taxes than the USA …Using annual data from Canadian provinces, this paper studies the effects of a drastic reduction in Canadian cigarette …

A central parameter for evaluating tax policies is the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. But in many countries … increases, biases upwards the response of legal cigarette sales to price. We surmount this problem through two approaches …: excluding the provinces and years where smuggling was greatest; and using household level expenditure data on smoking, where …

A central parameter for evaluating tax policies is the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. But in many countries … increases, biases upwards the response of legal cigarette sales to price. We surmount this problem through two approaches …: excluding the provinces and years where smuggling was greatest; and using household level expenditure data on smoking, where …

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 …