We study the effects of traditional cigarette and e-cigarette taxes on use of these products among adults in the United … States. Data are drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey over the … period 2011 to 2018. Using two-way fixed effects models, we find evidence that higher traditional cigarette tax rates reduce …

This paper assesses the appropriate cigarette tax needed to address potential market failures. There is no evidence of … inadequate risk decisions by smokers regarding their own welfare. Detailed calculations of the financial externalities of smoking … uncertain, but of potentially substantial magnitude. Even with recognition of these costs, current cigarette taxes exceed the …

other factors, such as the average wage, also affect the tax revenue. It is necessary to consider that the cigarette … price of these products but also the transition of consumers to so-called e-cigarettes. A reduction in cigarette consumption … may be reflected in the future by reducing healthcare costs, which will create potential reductions in public health …

taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save … reduced smoking - reductions in medical expenses and earnings from adverted premature deaths - could bring small, albeit …