Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

No 21311, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four additional waves of YRBS data (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013). Our results suggest that youths have become much less responsive to cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013.

JEL-codes: H71 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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Published as Have Cigarette Taxes Lost Their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking Benjamin Hansen , Joseph J. Sabia , and Daniel I. Rees American Journal of Health Economics 2017 3:1, 60-75

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