relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We … estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey …Several studies have examined the effects of state cigarette tax increases on youth substance use over the 1990s, with …

) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four …Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008 … cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth …

(Add Health) to examine the impact of tobacco taxes on smoking. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in response to …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …