This paper contains the appendices to the report "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulation on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in the European Union" ("https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435177" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435177). The contents will be of interest to researchers studying EU regulations...

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [P.L. 111-31] gives the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products, including placing restrictions on product composition, sale, and distribution. A complete accounting of the costs and benefits of any...

Illicit trade in tobacco is a substantial and growing problem in the U.S., causing loss of tax revenue, damage to public health, and threats to public safety. Decisions about enforcement against ITTP involve tradeoffs among competing objectives. Good policy design can improve the terms of those...

This appendices to this report can be found at: (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435260). In regulating tobacco products, governments seek to promote public health by discouraging consumption. However, imposing regulatory costs and taxes on licit producers and consumers presents an economic...

Track and trace (T&T) of tobacco products concerns recording and monitoring the physical locations through which the goods travel in the distribution channel. T&T systems for tobacco are intended mainly to combat tax evasion and illicit diversion of goods. This study examines current T&T systems...

Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) is big business in the United States and creates many harms including reduced tax revenues; damages to the economic interests of legitimate actors; funding for organized-crime and terrorist groups; negative effects of participation in illicit markets,...

Paper is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095BOTEC Analysis surveyed 5,001 adult smokers in California from March 12 to April 13, 2018, about a year after the state tobacco excise tax increase on April 1, 2017. The purposes of the survey were to:•...