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 … result. I hypothesize that people who quit smoking experience a renewed interest in their health, increased confidence in …

the upper and the lower limit. The purpose of this article is to challenge several myths related to the cigarette taxation … in the EU. The first one is that an increase of the specific component of the cigarette excise negatively affects the … the paper is that an increase of the specific excise increases the government revenue from cigarette excises, whereby this …

cigarette consumption patterns between less and more well-off households. These results hold even considering some small …

pregnancy fixed effects models. We show that e-cigarette taxes increase pre-pregnancy smoking, increase prenatal smoking, and …We use the universe of birth records in the United States from 2013 to 2018 to examine the effect of e-cigarette tax … rates on pre-pregnancy smoking and prenatal smoking. We study these questions using two-way fixed effects models and …

We analyze data about cigarette tax compliance from the first national scale littered cigarette packs collection. We … provide evidence that noncompliance is due to both cross-border shopping and cigarette trafficking. OLS and binomial logit …

-tax states for resale. Thus, the product is attractive to lawbreakers. This chapter shows how raising cigarette taxes creates a … black market for cheap cigarettes and leads to interstate smuggling. Key takeaways: (1) Cigarette taxes have increased over … some jurisdictions result in rampant smuggling. The estimated revenues lost to cigarette tax avoidance are $5.1 billion. (3 …

Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes … (ECEA) was applied to model the impact on cigarette consumption of hypothetically increased cigarette tax. The methodology … was employed to evaluate: [1] health benefits (premature deaths averted); [2] health expenditures regarding smoking …

This report estimates the revenue and distributional effects of increasing the state’s cigarette excise tax by $0 …-informed decisions, then economic theory predicts that an increase in the cigarette tax may benefit them by encouraging healthier …