Cigarette demand in Canada and the US-Canadian cigarette smuggling

Rajeev Goel

Applied Economics Letters, 2004, vol. 11, issue 9, 537-540

Abstract: Using annual data from Canadian provinces, this paper studies the effects of a drastic reduction in Canadian cigarette taxes in 1994 on cross-border smuggling. The results show that the policy was successful in that the border prices seem to not have had a statistically significant impact on cigarette sales. The own price elasticity of cigarette demand in Canada is estimated to be around -0.7. The elasticity is slightly lower when the border-price effects are taken into account and is larger than the corresponding estimates for the USA, implying that dollar-for-dollar there might be greater opportunities for reducing smoking in Canada through higher taxes than the USA.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000263043

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