Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce Youth Smoking

P. Decicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Philip DeCicca

Working Papers from Aarhus School of Business - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper re-examines the empirical support for predictions that proposed cigarette tax or price increases will substantially reduce youth smoking. Part of the support for these predictions comes from evidence that higher taxes reduce aggregate tobacco sales and adult smoking rates. But taxes may have much different impacts on youth starting behavior than on adult quiting behavior.

Keywords: TAXATION; SMOKING; HEALTH; YOUTH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2000
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Working Paper: PUTTING OUT THE FIRES: WILL HIGHER TAXES REDUCE YOUTH SMOKING? (2000)
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