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 …

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places. -- smoking ; cigarettes ; tobacco …

significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in … youth smoking rates. We also document evidence of evasion: provincial menthol bans shifted smokers' cigarette purchases away …

in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson examines the vibrant and contentious history of smoking to … advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Robinson explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette … Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful. The persistence of smoking owes to such …