smoking
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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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Quitting Smoking Can Increase Weight More Than We Thought
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Obesity is a growing health problem in the United States with prevalence rates rising from 13 percent in the 1960s to 35 percent in 2012. The United States has the highest obesity rate in the OECD, but the world is keeping pace: The World Health Organization has declared obesity to be…
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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.
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If Work Doesn’t Kill You…
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Researchers examine the link between job loss and cardiovascular health in Norway.