The potential for using excise taxes to reduce smoking

The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking.

We estimate a generalized linear model to examine adult and teenage cigarette demand. Out analysis focuses on the extent to which excise taxes and regulations restricting smoking in public places affect cigarette consumption. The adult results indicate that the price elasticity of demand is unstable over time, ranging from 0.06 in 1970 to -0.23 in 1985. These estimates are lower than most found...

The effect of cigarette excise taxes on smoking before, during and after pregnancy.

Recent analyses suggest that cigarette excise taxes lower prenatal smoking. It is unclear, however, whether the association between taxes and prenatal smoking represents a decline among women of reproductive age or a particular response by pregnant women. We address this question directly with an analysis of quit and relapse behavior during and after pregnancy. We find that the price elasticity...

Excise Taxes: Economics, Politics, and Psychology *

The imposition of taxes on specific consumption goods and services (i.e. excise taxes) not only is a time-honoured activity but also makes common sense: government financing can be combined with other important social goals, in particular the reduction of externalities (costs imposed on other people) by making the taxed goods more expensive. Thus two goals can be attained at the same time, whic...

Death and taxes: using the latter to reduce the former.

To cite: Warner KE. Tob Control Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ tobaccocontrol-2013051079 As the old adage attributed to Benjamin Franklin puts it, there are only two things in life that are certain: death and taxes. In the case of cigarette smoking, they are closely related. Raising cigarette prices, primarily by increasing cigarette taxes, reduces smoking,...

Excise, electronic cigarettes and nicotine reduction to reduce smoking prevalence in New Zealand by 2025.