Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Comment

Abrevaya, Jason; Puzzello, Laura

doi:10.1257/aer.102.4.1751

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“…These results also add clarity to previous research estimating smokers' compensatory behavior (Evans and Farrelly, 1998;Farrelly et al, 2004;Adda and Cornaglia, 2006;Abrevaya and Puzzello, 2012;Adda and Cornaglia, 2013). The addition of new NHANES waves provides more statistical power than present in previous research.…”

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“…Adda and Cornaglia (2006) use a subset of the NHANES III data set, covering 1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2000 and serum cotinine as a measure of nicotine intake. Abrevaya and Puzzello (2012), a comment, find that Adda and Cornaglia's results are unstable when the sample is increased to all respondents in the NHANES III data. Adda and Cornaglia (2006) also construct a ratio of the serum cotinine level and the number of cigarettes smoked to measure smoking 'intensity', and they find that increased cigarette excise taxes increase this measure of smoking intensity.…”

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“…Third, I update the results in Adda and Cornaglia (2006), Abrevaya and Puzzello (2012) and Adda and Cornaglia (2013) using three additional waves of the NHANES data extending through 2012. First, I use unconditional quantile regression to examine whether smokers' responses to tobacco control policies differ across the distribution of smoking levels.…”

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Heterogeneity in Smokers' Responses to Tobacco Control Policies

Nesson

2015

Health Econ.

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This paper uses unconditional quantile regression to estimate whether smokers' responses to tobacco control policies change across the distribution of smoking levels. I measure smoking behavior with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and also with serum cotinine levels, a continuous biomarker of nicotine exposure, using individual-level repeated cross-section data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. I find that the cigarette taxes lead to reductions in both the number of cigarettes smoked per day and in smokers' cotinine levels. These reductions are most pronounced in the middle quantiles of both distributions in terms of marginal effects, but most pronounced in the lower quantiles in terms of tax elasticities. I do not find that higher cigarette taxes lead to statistically significant changes in the amount of nicotine smokers ingest from each cigarette. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Heterogeneity in Smokers' Responses to Tobacco Control Policies

Nesson

2015

Health Econ.

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“…Recently, attention has been brought to the fact that the behavior of smokers may offset the consumption effect of a tax increase (Adda and Cornaglia 2006). In a later contribution Abrevaya and Puzzello (2012)-henceforth, AP (2012)-re-examined Adda and Cornaglia's (2006)-henceforth, AC (2006)-analysis using a larger sample from the same source and have cast some doubts on the robustness of AC's (2006) analysis. In particular, they claim that the limited within-state tax variation observed in the dataset does not lead to precise cigarettes and cotinine tax-elasticities estimates.…”

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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply

Adda

Cornaglia

2013

American Economic Review

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This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit NHANES data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, using panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior. We show the importance of smoking intensity as a long-run determinant of smoking cessation. We also investigate the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity. (JEL H25, H32, I12, L11, L66)

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“…Adda and Cornaglia (2013) and Abrevaya and Puzzello (2012) discuss the challenges of estimating price and tax effects accurately in a similar context.…”

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Retail Tobacco Display Bans

Irvine

Nguyen

2014

Forum for Health Economics and Policy

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Bans on retail tobacco displays, of the type proposed by New York's Mayor Bloomberg in March 2013, have been operative in several economies since 2001. Despite an enormous number of studies in public health journals using attitudinal data, we can find no econometric event studies of the type normally used in Economics. This paper attempts to fill that gap by using data from 13 cross sections of the annual Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Surveys. These data afford an ideal opportunity to study events of this type given that each of Canada's 10 provinces implemented display bans at various points between 2003 and 2009. Accordingly, we use difference-in-difference methods to study three behaviors following the introduction of bans: participation in smoking, the intensity of smoking and quit intentions. A critical element of the study concerns the treatment of contraband tobacco. Our estimates provide very little support for the hypothesis that behaviors changed following the bans.

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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Comment

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