Youth smoking, cigarette prices, and anti-smoking sentiment
- Authors
- Decicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald; Mathios, Alan; Shin, Yoon-Jeong; Lim, Jae-Young
- Issue Date
- 6월-2008
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Citation
- HEALTH ECONOMICS, v.17, no.6, pp.733 - 749
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- HEALTH ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 733
- End Page
- 749
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/123497
- DOI
- 10.1002/hec.1293
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
- Abstract
- 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. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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