Cigarette prices and driving fatalities among youths

Vinish Shrestha

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 184, issue C

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; Vehicle fatalities; Youths (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108589

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