Unintended consequences of cigarette prohibition, regulation, and taxation

Kulick, Jonathan; Prieger, James E.; Kleiman, Mark A. R.

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2016.03.002

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“…Marion & Muehlegger, 2007). Such activities on the part of policy takers, however, are key in determining the success of eliminating various government initiatives ranging from tobacco control to bus fare evasion (Delbosc & Currie, 2016;Kulick et al, 2016) and these behaviors should be "designed for." That is, adverse or malicious, mendacious, and/or Machiavellian behavior on the part of policy-takers is a critical subject but one often glossed over in studies of policy compliance and "target behavior" (Howlett, 2018).…”

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The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes

2020

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Policies are made and pursue their goals through policy instruments. Furthermore, policy instruments have become a relevant topic in many policy fields due to their theoretical and empirical relevance. The study of this field dates back to Lowi and others who developed many typologies and theories in classic works by authors such as Hood, Salamon, Linder and Peters, Peters and van Nispen, Schneider and Ingram, Lascomes and Le Galès, among others. This is important work that is linked closely to current research on policy design but, despite much effort, many fundamental issues remain unknown or understudied with respect to the topic. It is time to take inventory of the knowns and unknowns about policy tools. The current article examines four clusters of basic issues in the field which require further research.

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The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes

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“…Overall, the secondary and tertiary prevention solutions were given more emphasis by the stakeholders than the primary prevention solutions. Whilst more vigilant enforcement and harsher penalties can reduce black market activity (Kulick et al, 2016), it increases the risk of violence-related harms and incarceration.…”

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Store robberies for tobacco products: Perceived causes and potential solutions

Glover¹,

Shepherd²,

Nazari

et al. 2021

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Robberies of New Zealand convenience stores for tobacco products spiked between 2016 and 2017. According to media reports, many robberies involved the use of weapons and resulted in injury to retailers. We conducted a content analysis of all online media articles containing commentary about these robberies, published between 2014 and 2019, to identify the perceived causes of the increase in robberies for tobacco and remedies implemented or demanded. The commentators in the articles were categorized into three groups of stakeholders: elites, grassroots, and interest groups. Overall, there was a mismatch between perceiving the primary cause to be socially and economically determined and suggesting solutions that were mostly situational shop level changes or tertiary prevention strategies, such as more and harsher policing. A further mismatch was that existing policing policy was not adapted to balance the perverse consequences of the tobacco excise tax increases. Early commentators tended to deflect blame away from their own sector. Later commentary converged to agree that the high tobacco excise tax was a critical causal factor.

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“…Illicit cigarette trafficking is a global and transnational crime causing substantial losses in public revenues, undermining the effectiveness of smoking-reduction policies, and providing financial resources to organized crime and terrorist groups (Joossens et al 2000;Kulick et al 2016). It is "perhaps the most widespread […] sector in the shadow economy" (OECD 2016 p. 16).…”

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Modeling the structure and dynamics of transnational illicit networks: an application to cigarette trafficking

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Many illicit markets are transnational in nature: illicit products are consumed in a country different from the one in which they were produced. Therefore, reconstructing the trafficking network and estimating the size of cross-border illicit flows are crucial steps to gain better understanding of these crimes and to enforce actions aimed at countering them. In this respect, the present study outlines a methodology with which to map and size illicit flows and applies it in estimation of transnational cigarette trafficking flows. The proposed methodology traces each step in the paths followed by illicit cigarettes flowing from their origin to the final consumption country and then estimates the quantity of cigarettes moving between each pair of countries. It exploits data on consumption of illicit cigarettes in 57 countries located in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, together with data on seizure cases and geographical information for 158 countries worldwide. These data are combined by a function that assigns a likelihood value of illicit cigarettes being transported between any pair of countries. An algorithm is then implemented in order to identify the most likely paths from the origin to the destination country. By merging results for all the different combinations of origins and destinations, this study estimates the size of all cross-border illicit flows and reconstructs a dynamic transnational cigarette trafficking network for the period 2008–2017. The results highlight the multifaceted role of countries in the cigarette trafficking network, the emergence of identifiable cigarette trafficking routes, and the evolution over time of the structure of this transnational illicit network. Finally, the paper discusses how the methodology developed could be adapted to the study of other transnational crimes.

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Unintended consequences of cigarette prohibition, regulation, and taxation

Cited by 30 publications

References 90 publications

The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes

The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes

Store robberies for tobacco products: Perceived causes and potential solutions

Modeling the structure and dynamics of transnational illicit networks: an application to cigarette trafficking

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