Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … taxes increase the probability that low-income smoking households take-up food stamps. …

reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We … therefore analyze the staggered introductions of smoking bans and the variation in cigarette taxes over more than twenty years … evidence that smoking bans are associated with lower levels of smoking. In contrast, higher cigarette prices tend to be …

This study examines the long-term link between in-utero cigarette taxes and adult prenatal smoking. We use U.S. birth …-pregnancy and prenatal smoking. We also show that higher in-utero cigarette taxes have long-lasting effects on adult health, and …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …