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 …

In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly … associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the writing of the Surgeon General report …, using quasi-experimental methods, and reach the opposite conclusion. We study contemporaneous and intertemporal effects of e-cigarette …

and smoking participation among older adults (ages 25+). Our findings suggest that statewide comprehensive flavor bans may …The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health … sweeping bans on flavored e-cigarettes. In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use …

The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … of cigarette taxes warn that tax hikes will cause youths to substitute toward marijuana. On the other hand, public health … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using …

Much research has examined the effect of anti-smoking policies on the use of cigarettes, but relatively little work has … taxes lower rates of smokeless tobacco use, they substantially increase smoking among young men. For example, a ten … percentage point increase in the tax on smokeless tobacco would raise the smoking rate by 5.3% percent in this group. The …

with age. We investigate the responsiveness of older adult smoking using variation from recent historically-large cigarette … find consistent evidence that higher taxes reduced smoking participation by adults aged forty-five to fifty … implies that cessation behavior by older adults is not sensitive to price. Since a large literature suggests smoking cessation …

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 …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any … estimated ENDS tax elasticities of -0.06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax effects, suggesting …