In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly … associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the writing of the Surgeon General report …, using quasi-experimental methods, and reach the opposite conclusion. We study contemporaneous and intertemporal effects of e-cigarette …

result. I hypothesize that people who quit smoking experience a renewed interest in their health, increased confidence in …Economists have begun to debate if the rise in cigarette prices in the U.S. in recent decades has contributed to the … effect to occur gradually over several years leads to the conclusion that a rise in cigarette prices is actually associated …

affordable, as income gains overrun cigarette price increases. The results show that average-price cigarettes in China were 1 … income consumers. The study estimates the affordability elasticity of cigarette consumption in China at -0.6, suggesting that … a 10 percent increase in cigarette affordability will result in 6.01 percent increase in cigarette consumption …