In the past dozen years the regulatory systems surrounding the traditional vices of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling have … assesses their impact. In the case of alcohol and tobacco, the reforms generally have been quite salutary, even as …

A sound understanding of the potency of tobacco control policies is key to tobacco prevention. This study exploits a … Smoothed Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression estimator to gauge the effectiveness of tobacco control policies while … and tobacco control expenditures are examined in a single framework, which has the promise of accounting for potential …

A reduction in tobacco use can lead to a smaller tobacco industry, which in turn can affect, in both desirable and … community should examine the employment aspect of tobacco control measures when considering an effort to reduce tobacco use. The … purpose of this examination is three-fold: provide the information needed by policy makers who are hesitant to make tobacco …

In this paper, we examine the dynamic effect of tobacco control policies on tobacco consumption using the recent … implementation of such policies in Korea. The results show that such policies discretely reduce the incidence and amount of tobacco … consumptions. We document that after the initial drop, spending on tobacco products gradually recovered towards the pre …