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Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …
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Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …
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cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …
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This study examines the long-term link between in-utero cigarette taxes and adult prenatal smoking. We use U.S. birth …-pregnancy and prenatal smoking. We also show that higher in-utero cigarette taxes have long-lasting effects on adult health, and …
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stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … taxes increase the probability that low-income smoking households take-up food stamps. …
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The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents of cigarette taxes warn that tax hikes will cause youths to substitute toward marijuana. On the other hand, public health experts often claim that because tobacco is a...
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stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … taxes increase the probability that low-income smoking households take-up food stamps. …
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This paper uses restricted-access data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey to assess whether the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax levied in Seattle in 2018 led to declines in body mass index (BMI) and the rate of obesity. We implement an event-study design which compares...
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