This paper examines the effect of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) advertising on youth smoking. NRT advertising … could decrease smoking by informing smokers that the product can make quitting easier and thus inducing more smokers to try … indicate that NRT advertising has no effect on participation but increases smoking by youth who do smoke. The elasticity of …

public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … in localities that are strongly frequented by youths. In contrast, there is no evidence that a country-wide smoking ban … legal smoking age affected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced indoor …

-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state …