Cigarette taxes, prices, and disparities in current smoking in the United States.
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SUBMITTER: Kalousova L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674120 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
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Cigarette taxes, prices, and disparities in current smoking in the United States.
Kalousova Lucie L Levy David D Titus Andrea R AR Meza Rafael R Thrasher James F JF Elliott Michael R MR Fleischer Nancy L NL
SSM - population health 20201105
Increasing cigarette taxes has been the cornerstone of tobacco control policy. Recent work has argued that raising cigarette taxes alone may no longer be an effective strategy for lowering smoking rates. We largely confirm these findings but also find that increases in price continue to predict lower smoking participation in most model specifications. We argue that raising cigarette prices via taxation remains an effective public health policy. We discuss the advantages of homogeneous tax enviro ...[more]
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