Cigarette taxes as cigarette policy

Cigarette Taxes and Consumption: An Economic and Policy Analysis

Cigarette Taxes, Smoking-and Exercise?

This research provides the first in-depth analysis of the effect that increased cigarette taxes have on exercise behavior. Smoking may diminish the ability to exercise; individuals may also use exercise to compensate for the harmful health effects of smoking or to avoid gaining weight if they cut back. Our conceptual model highlights these and several other avenues for effect and reveals that t...

The Effect of Cigarette Taxes

Governments levy excise taxes on cigarettes for two reasons: to raise revenues and to discourage smoking. Before the surgeon general's 1964 report on the ills of smoking,1 these taxes were justified nprmarily in terms of raising revenue. After the report, however, some form of regulation was needed to battle the newfound public health hazard. Although many other forms of regulation were attempt...

Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity.

This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration--a metabolite of nicotine--measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate for tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking a given cigarette more intensively is detrimental to health, our ...

Cigarette taxes and smoking during pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES This study sought to estimate how changes in state cigarette excise taxes affect the smoking behavior of pregnant women. METHODS Detailed information about mothers and their pregnancy was used to examine the impact of taxes on the propensity of pregnant women to smoke. The 1989 to 1995 Natality Detail Files were used in conducting analyses to assess the impact of taxes on smoking a...