We use data from the Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey from 2006-2015 to calculate cigarette … price elasticities of demand using four alternative cigarette tax/price measures that compensate for the local tax … local tax environment, and significantly lower elasticities for other popular cigarette price measures. We also find greater …

The effect of advertising on cigarette demand has been widely studied. Yet the demand-advertising nexus is not … effects of the Master Settlement Agreement, and studying the dynamic effects of advertising and smoking. Findings show that U ….S. cigarette demand is inelastic, the income effects are mixed, advertising elasticities are relatively small, post-MSA advertising …

delivery systems for cigarette smoking …We examine recent survey data from California to investigate smokers' intended responses to an increase in cigarette …

Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent … increase in the state's cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some … figures. Smokers who roll their own cigarettes, e-cigarette users, younger smokers, and those with more income and education …

-tax states for resale. Thus, the product is attractive to lawbreakers. This chapter shows how raising cigarette taxes creates a … black market for cheap cigarettes and leads to interstate smuggling. Key takeaways: (1) Cigarette taxes have increased over … some jurisdictions result in rampant smuggling. The estimated revenues lost to cigarette tax avoidance are $5.1 billion. (3 …

-cigarettes will draw cigarette smokers away from a dangerous habit or lure new initiates into tobacco use. We provide some of the … first causal evidence on whether e-cigarette advertising on television and in magazines (which comprise about 90% of total … that period. On the other hand, if the FDA were not considering regulations and mandates that would likely eliminate many e-cigarette …

smoking is that causality between e-cig use and cigarette use is ignored. One contribution of this paper is to estimate …Over the past few years, adult use of e-cigs has been increasing while adult smoking has been declining. Although there … is a negative time correlation, it is important to determine if there is a causal effect of e-cig use on smoking. This is …