Cigarette Prices and Driving Fatalities Among Youths

Vinish Shrestha ()
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Vinish Shrestha: Department of Economics, Towson University

No 2019-02, Working Papers from Towson University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Deaths from motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of unintentional deaths in the United States. This paper investigates the effect of increases in cigarette taxes and prices following the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) on non-alcohol and alcohol-related motor vehicle fatalities among youths. I find that increases in cigarette taxes and prices are associated with a reduction in non-alcohol related accidents between 1998 and 2006 among 16-to-20 year olds.

Keywords: Cigarette Taxes and Prices; Driving Fatalities; Externalities. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2019-08, Revised 2019-08
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