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 …

% safer than cigarette smoking and the overwhelming majority of people who use e-cigarettes regularly are current or former …-cigarettes, food/soft drinks and tobacco. Nanny state interventions in these areas are invariably promoted on grounds of health and yet … it is difficult to see how clamping down on vaping benefits public health. Paternalistic arguments can be made for …

To achieve the target and to reduce the cost and burden from smoking, the Malaysian government regulates and implements … several tobacco control policies and campaigns to control cigarette consumption and reduce the proportion of smokers in the … Malaysian population. It is undeniable that tobacco tax policy plays a significant role in reducing cigarette consumption …

threat that tobacco use inflicts on global public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented the Framework … of illicit tobacco products in the market is becoming a prevalent problem and a severe challenge to public health. The …

smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may more than fully offset any public health gains … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 ….06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax elasticities, suggesting economic substitution …

This study examines the long-term link between early-life cigarette taxes and adult smoking behavior. Using U.S. birth … find that the mother's exposure to higher in-utero cigarette taxes (over 1965-2000) reduces contemporary adult smoking … suggest that early-life exposure to state-level policies discouraging smoking can shape health behaviors over the long run …

the myopic addiction behaviour of cigarette demand. Sensitivity analysis is done by examining a rational addiction … behavior of cigarette demand. The results provide support for myopic addiction. The short- and long-run price elasticities of … cigarette demand are estimated at -0.28 and -0.73 respectively. Excise taxes are more likely to act as an effective tobacco …

This study estimates both conditional and unconditional cigarette price elasticity of quantity demanded in Croatia … cigarette price elasticity on the sample of Croatian households. The data from household surveys (HBS) conducted in Croatia for … cigarette price elasticity is −1.38 and estimated conditional price elasticity is −0.63. Simulation of the tax effects shows …

This article shows how diffusion of the two policy instruments “cigarette taxation” and “smoke free air regulation … applying the concept of conditional diffusion I show 1) that the cigarette taxes in states with liberal governments are … positively related to the cigarette taxes in adjacent states, while very conservative governments lower taxes in a high …