We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the … than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 … smoking is more dangerous. …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

partly offset by declining rates of smoking. This paper examines historical trends in tobacco excise, focussing on the recent …Tobacco excise has grown strongly over the last few years as significant increases in the excise rate have been only … past including the impact of significant policy changes over the last decade, and then discusses how tobacco excise is …

In many European countries, there is an unmissable trend towards stricter tobacco control policies and a parallel … reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We … therefore analyze the staggered introductions of smoking bans and the variation in cigarette taxes over more than twenty years …