tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 ….06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax elasticities, suggesting economic substitution … between cigarettes and e-cigarettes for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent cigarette …

Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes … (ECEA) was applied to model the impact on cigarette consumption of hypothetically increased cigarette tax. The methodology … was employed to evaluate: [1] health benefits (premature deaths averted); [2] health expenditures regarding smoking …

consumption and smoking participation (suggesting a complementarity in consumption), while higher cigarette prices tend to … of cross-price effects in cigarette and alcohol consumption. We use individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor … Surveillance System to investigate cigarette and alcohol consumption in the US, estimating both own and cross-price elasticities …

This report estimates the revenue and distributional effects of increasing the state’s cigarette excise tax by $0 …-informed decisions, then economic theory predicts that an increase in the cigarette tax may benefit them by encouraging healthier …

%) increase in cigarette prices in November, 1998. Earlier estimates of the elasticity of prenatal smoking implied that the price … rise would reduce prenatal cigarette smoking by 7% to 21%. Using birth records on 10 million U.S. births between January … 1996 and February 2000, we examined the change in smoking during pregnancy and conditional smoking intensity in response to …

would only reduce cigarette sales by about 2 percent, while forcing TV networks to eliminate all on-screen smoking activity …We evaluate whether and how branded TV product placement affects sales for cigarette brands. We use data on product … placement exposure for each cigarette brand. We find that product placement has a small yet positive and statistically …

'rational addiction' model, whereby the only role for government is in correcting the external costs of consumption of such … inconsistent' about decisions such as smoking, having a higher discount rate between this period and the next than between future … implications for government policy towards smoking. Unlike the traditional model, our alternative implies that there is a role for …

The upward trend in cigarette smoking among teenagers throughout the 1990's has spurred a great deal of interest on how … cigarette prices (which can be increased through cigarette excise taxes) and restrictions on smoking in public places and … to discourage young people from smoking. This paper attempts to inform policy makers by providing evidence on the effects …

% safer than cigarette smoking and the overwhelming majority of people who use e-cigarettes regularly are current or former … interventions designed to deter people from drinking, smoking and eating too much, but laws which deter the use of e-cigarettes do … ‘gateway’ to smoking appear to be unfounded. In the EU, fewer than 0.5% of those who have never smoked use e-cigarettes, but …