, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways …-in-differences technique to estimate the association between tax increases and cigarette consumption. Estimates indicate that, for adults, the … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually …

, evidence that tobacco taxes reduce adult smoking is relatively sparse. In this paper, we extend the literature in two ways …-in-differences technique to estimate the association between tax increases and cigarette consumption. Estimates indicate that, for adults, the … association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small and not usually …

preventing teenagers from smoking will ensure that fewer adults smoke, but direct evidence in support of this assumption is scant …Are teenage and adult smoking causally related? Recent anti-tobacco policy is predicated on the assumption that … document a strong, positive relationship between teenage and adult smoking: specifically, deterring 10 teenagers from smoking …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe … estimation biases. -- taxes ; smoking ; cigarettes ; addiction …