Cigarettes
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New Evidence on E-Cigarette Taxes Highlights Competing Benefits and Pitfalls
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Cigarette use in the United States has been on a consistent downward trend in recent decades, dropping from 20.9% to 12.5% between 2005 and 2020. However, the rising popularity of electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) has counteracted this reduction in tobacco use. This trend has been particularly prominent among adolescents. Between 2011…
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Up in Smoke: How Cigarette Taxes Affect Public Assistance Enrollment
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Policymakers use tax penalties and incentives as a mechanism to modify the public’s behavior. Cigarette taxes are one of the most obvious examples of such a policy. As a matter of public health, society would be better off if fewer people smoked cigarettes—raising the cost of cigarettes with a tax…
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To Smoke or Not to Smoke: Evidence on the ineffectiveness of warning labels
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Cigarette package warning labels might not make a difference, as researchers find smokers do not make decisions based on their existence.