Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

No 6688, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity.

Keywords: excise taxes; public health; compensatory behavior; tobacco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 H25 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2012-06
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Published - published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103(7), 3102-3114

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