Arbeitspapier

Taxes, cigarette consumption, and smoking intensity: Reply

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 data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6688

Classification
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Health Behavior
Subject
tobacco
public health
compensatory behavior
excise taxes
Tabaksteuer
Wirkungsanalyse
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USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Adda, Jérôme
Cornaglia, Francesca
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Adda, Jérôme
  • Cornaglia, Francesca
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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