This paper estimates effects of e-cigarette taxes enacted in eight states and two large counties on e-cigarette prices …, e-cigarette sales, and sales of other tobacco products. We use NielsenIQ Retail Scanner data from 2011 to 2017 …, comprising approximately 35,000 retailers nationally, and develop a method to standardize e-cigarette taxes since adopting …

We explore the effect of e-cigarette taxes enacted in eight states and two large counties on e-cigarette prices, e-cigarette … approximately 35,000 retailers nationally. We calculate a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of 0.251 for e-cigarette retail purchases …, indicating high market concentration, and a tax-to-price pass-through of 1.6. We then calculate an e-cigarette own …