Public Sentiment and Tobacco Control Policy

Perry Singleton ()
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Perry Singleton: Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020, https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/perry-singleton

No 106, Center for Policy Research Working Papers from Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Abstract: The well-documented correlation between cigarette excise taxes and cigarette demand may not be entirely causal if excise taxes reflect public sentiment towards smoking. I consider whether proxies for smoking sentiment--the prevalence of smoking by education and intention to quit statuses--are correlated with support for and implementation of tobacco control laws. I find that cigarette excise taxes are most sensitive to the prevalence of educated smokers who do not want to quit. Additionally, when proxies for public sentiment are included, the estimated elasticity of cigarette demand declines from -2.0 to -1.3.

Keywords: Cigarette demand; excise taxes; legislative endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2008-05
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