Contact Summer Hawkins via email (summer.hawkins@bc.edu). We found that cigarette tax increases were associated with reductions in smoking among the youngest adolescents only, while the enactment of smoke-free legislation reduced smoking rates overall. Do cigarette taxes have an impact on smoking rates? EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON ADULT SMOKERS.
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", DeCicca, Philip & Kenkel, Donald & Liu, Feng, 2013. Back in New Jersey, Pete Quinto said if the tax goes up as much as proposed, he might finally quit.
New Evidence Of The Effect Of Recent Cigarette Tax Increases On Adult Smoking, Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking.
An Assessment of the Forward‐Looking Hypothesis of the Demand for Cigarettes. The effects of traditional cigarette and e-cigarette tax rates on adult tobacco product use. Surgeon General report earlier this year, found they have the least access to programs to help them quit.
Estimates indicate that, for adults, the association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity is negative, small, and not usually statistically significant. Future studies will help distinguish whether higher cigarette taxes continue to reduce smoking among younger adolescents or faced with higher prices, they are switching to cheaper tobacco products.
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“The advantage of tobacco taxes is they reduce tobacco use more effectively, more efficiently and more predictably than any other single tactic, while also raising revenue for government,” Myers said. Smoking, Expectations, and Health: A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Lifetime Smoking Behavior.