Illicit trade in tobacco is a substantial and growing problem in the U.S., causing loss of tax revenue, damage to public health, and threats to public safety. Decisions about enforcement against ITTP involve tradeoffs among competing objectives. Good policy design can improve the terms of those...

This appendices to this report can be found at: (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435260). In regulating tobacco products, governments seek to promote public health by discouraging consumption. However, imposing regulatory costs and taxes on licit producers and consumers presents an economic...

Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) creates many harms including reduced tax revenues; damages to the economic interests of legitimate actors; funding for organized-crime and terrorist groups; negative effects of participation in illicit markets, such as violence and incarceration; and...

Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) is big business in the United States and creates many harms including reduced tax revenues; damages to the economic interests of legitimate actors; funding for organized-crime and terrorist groups; negative effects of participation in illicit markets,...

We examine recent survey data from California to investigate smokers' intended responses to an increase in cigarette excise taxes rates, including tax avoidance and the economic crimes of tax evasion and illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP). We estimate how tax avoidance, tax evasion, and...

Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent increase in the state's cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some legal tax-avoiding behavior in the previous month,...

Paper is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095BOTEC Analysis surveyed 5,001 adult smokers in California from March 12 to April 13, 2018, about a year after the state tobacco excise tax increase on April 1, 2017. The purposes of the survey were to:•...

BOTEC Analysis surveyed 5,000 adult smokers in California from March 10 to March 29, 2017, right before the state tobacco excise tax increase on April 1, 2017. The purposes of the survey were to:• Measure awareness among smokers of the upcoming increase in the state excise tax• Discover...