Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth                         Smoking?

DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald; Mathios, Alan

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“…However, some recent papers dispute the effect of prices. DeCicca et al (2002) show that cigarette prices do not affect initiation at young ages. Adda and Cornaglia (2006) show that although taxes affect the number of cigarette smoked, smokers compensate by smoking each cigarette more intensively.…”

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The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking

Adda

Cornaglia

2010

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine -a metabolite of nicotine -as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the exposure of non-smokers to tobacco smoke by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate non-smokers, and in particular young children. In contrast, we find that higher taxes are an efficient way to decrease exposure to tobacco smoke, especially for those most exposed. We supplement this analysis by showing that bans have little effect on smoking cessation, and present evidence of displacement from public places using data on time use.

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The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking

Adda

Cornaglia

2010

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…However, some recent papers dispute the effect of prices. DeCicca et al (2002) show that cigarette prices do not affect initiation at young ages. Adda and Cornaglia (2005) show that although taxes affect the number of cigarette smoked, smokers compensate by smoking more intensively a given cigarette.…”

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The effects of taxes and bans on passive smoking

Adda¹,

Cornaglia²

2005

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration-a metabolite of nicotine-measured in a large population of non-smokers over time. Exploiting state and time variation across US states, we reach two important conclusions. First, excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking. Second, smoking bans have on average no effects on non smokers. While bans in public transportation or in schools decrease the exposure of non smokers, bans in recreational public places can in fact perversely increase their exposure by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate non smokers, and in particular young children. Bans affect socioeconomic groups differently: we find that smoking bans increase the exposure of poorer individuals, while it decreases the exposure of richer individuals, leading to widening health disparities. * j.adda@ucl.ac.uk and f.cornaglia@ucl.ac.uk. We are grateful to a number of seminar participants and to David Card, Ken Chay, Christian Dustmann, Steve Machin, Costas Meghir, and Imran Rasul for helpful discussions and comments and to William Evans for supplying us with data on US tobacco prices and taxes. Funding through the ESRC is gratefully acknowledged.Passive Smoking 2

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“…While some find a decrease in demand when price increases (Lewit et al, 1981;Grossman et al, 1983;Evans and Farrelly, 1998;Carpenter and Cook, 2008;Chaloupka and Wechsler, 1997), others find no effect (DeCicca et al, 2002). Chaloupka and Grossman (1996) examine the effect of tobacco policies such as restrictions on the location of cigarette vending machines.…”

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Reducing underage alcohol and tobacco use: Evidence from the introduction of vertical identification cards

Bellou

Bhatt

2013

Journal of Health Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu [1994][1995][1996][1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009], forty-three states changed the design of their driver's license/state identification cards in an effort to reduce underage access to and consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In these states, individuals under the age of 21 are issued licenses that are vertically oriented, whereas licenses for individuals 21 and older retain a traditional horizontal shape. This paper examines the effect of this design change on underage alcohol and tobacco use. Using a difference-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state-specific linear time trends, and are upheld in a triple difference model that uses a within state control group of teens that did not receive a vertical license to control for state-specific unobserved factors. Interestingly, we find that the effects of the design change are concentrated in the 1-2 years after a state begins issuing vertical licenses; there is little evidence of an effect of the license on underage consumption in the long-run. This finding is consistent with a scenario where, over time, teens substitute towards other methods of obtaining age-restricted products, and/or retailers continue to make underage sales. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S

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Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?

Cited by 190 publications

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The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking

The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking

The effects of taxes and bans on passive smoking

Reducing underage alcohol and tobacco use: Evidence from the introduction of vertical identification cards

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