Youth smoking, cigarette prices, and anti-smoking sentiment.
In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro-data on youth smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically, insignificant influence on smoking participation, and state anti-smoking sentiment appears to have a potentially important influence on youth smoking participation. The cross-sectional results are corroborated by results from the discrete time hazard models of smoking initiation that include state-fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette demand by youth and young adult smokers.
Decicca
Philip
P
Department of Economics, McMaster University. Hamilton, Ont., Canada.
Kenkel
Donald
D
Mathios
Alan
A
Shin
Yoon-Jeong
YJ
Lim
Jae-Young
JY
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000367:Age Factors; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D044469:Racial Groups; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012931:Social Environment; D014481:United States