Jin, Lawrence; Kenkel, Donald Scott; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Because e-cigarettes do not involve the combustion of … tobacco, vaping offers the potential to prevent most of the health consequences of smoking. We study the impact of an … perceptions and vaping and smoking behavior; and national aggregate time-series sales data. We find that after the outbreak …