Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios
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Journal of Political Economy, 2002, vol. 110, issue 1, 144-169

Abstract: This paper reexamines whether higher cigarette taxes will substantially reduce youth smoking. We study the impact of taxes during exactly the period in adolescence in which most smokers start their habits. We find weak or nonexistent tax effects in models of the onset of smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, models of the onset of heavy smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, and discrete-time hazard models that include state fixed effects. We also provide a new perspective on the relationship between smoking and schooling: students who eventually drop out of school are already more likely to smoke in the eighth grade.

Date: 2002
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