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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Increasing the Unit Price of Tobacco Products

Included Studies

The 17 qualifying studies include consolidated evaluations of the effect of tobacco product price on tobacco use in the states of:

California

Flewelling RL, Kenney E, Elder JP, Pierce J, Johnson M, Bal DG. First-year impact of the 1989 California cigarette tax increase on cigarette consumption [see comments]. American Journal of Public Health 1992;82:867-9.

Glantz S. Changes in cigarette consumption, prices, and tobacco industry revenues associated with California's proposition 99. Tobacco Control 1993;2:311-4.

Hu TW, Bai J, Keeler TE, Barnett PG, Sung HY. The impact of California Proposition 99, a major anti-smoking law, on cigarette consumption. Journal of Public Health Policy 1994;15:26-36.

Hu TW, Sung HY, Keeler TE. Reducing cigarette consumption in California: tobacco taxes vs an anti-smoking media campaign. American Journal of Public Health 1995;85:1218-22.

Hu TW, Ren QF, Keeler TE, Bartlett J. The demand for cigarettes in California and behavioural risk factors. Health Economics 1995;4:7-14.

Keeler TE, Hu T, Barnett PG, Manning WG. Taxation, regulation, and addiction: a demand function for cigarettes based on time-series evidence. Journal of Health Economics 1993;12:1-18.

Pierce JP, Gilpin E, Emery SL, White MM, Rosbrook B, Berry C. Has the California Tobacco Control Program Reduced Smoking? JAMA 1998;280:893-9.

Massachusetts

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cigarette smoking before and after an excise tax increase and an antismoking campaign--Massachusetts, 1990-1996. MMWR - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1996;45:966-70.

Oregon

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Decline in cigarette consumption following implementation of a comprehensive tobacco prevention and education program--Oregon, 1996-1998. MMWR - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1999;48:140-3.

11 western states

Sung H, Hu T, Keeler TE. Cigarette taxation and demand: An empirical model. Contemporary Economic Policy 1994;12:91-100.

National evaluations in the 1990s

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Response to increases in cigarette prices by race/ethnicity, income, and age groups-United States, 1976-1993. MMWR - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1998;47:605-9.

Meier KJ, Licari MJ. The effect of cigarette taxes on cigarette consumption, 1955 through 1994. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87:1126-30.

Evans WN, Ringel JS, Stech D. Tobacco taxes and public policy to discourage smoking. Tax policy and the economy 1999;13:1-56.

National evaluations in the 1980s

Ohsfeldt RL, Boyle RG, Capilouto E. Effects of tobacco excise taxes on the use of smokeless tobacco products in the USA. Health Education 1997;6:525-31.

Wasserman J, Manning WG, Newhouse JP, Winkler JD. The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking. Journal of Health Economics 1991;10:43-64.

Ohsfeldt RL, Boyle RG. Tobacco excise taxes and rates of smokeless tobacco use in the US: an exploratory ecological analysis. Tobacco Control 1994;3:316-23.

Baltagi BH, Goel RK. Quasi-experimental price elasticities of cigarette demand and the bootlegging effect. American Agricultural Economics Association 1987;69:750-4.

Barnett PG, Keeler TE, Hu T. Oligopoly structure and the incidence of cigarette excise taxes. Journal of Public Economics 1995;57:457-70.

Becker GS, Grossman M, Murphy KM. An empirical analysis of cigarette addiction. American Economic Review 1994;84:396-418.

Chaloupka F, Saffer H. Clean indoor air laws and the demand for cigarettes. Contemporary Policy Issues 1992;10:72-83.

Evans WN, Farrelly MC. The compensating behavior of smokers: Taxes, tar, and nicotine. RAND Journal of Economics 1998;29:0-19.

Jackson JD, Saba RP. Some limits on taxing sin: Cigarette taxation and health care finance. Southern Economic Journal 1997;761-75.

Moore MJ. Death and tobacco taxes. RAND Journal of Economics 1996;27:415-28.

Peterson DE, Zeger SL, Remington PL, Anderson HA. The effect of state cigarette tax increases on cigarette sales, 1955 to 1988. American Journal of Public Health 1992;82:94-6.

Saba RP, Beard TR, Ekelund RB, Ressler RW. The demand for cigarette smuggling. Economic Inquiry 1995;23:189-202.

Seldon BJ, Doroodian K. A simultaneous model of cigarette advertising: Effects on demand and industry response to public policy. Review of Economics and Statistics 1989;71:673-7.

Seldon BJ, Boyd R. The stability of cigarette demand. Applied Economics 1991;23:319-26.

Tegene A. Kalman filter and the demand for cigarettes. Applied Economics 1991;23:1175-82.

Thursby JG, Thursby MC. Interstate cigarette bootlegging: Extent, revenue losses, and effects of federal intervention. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996;2-29.

Tremblay CH, Tremblay VJ. The impact of cigarette advertising on consumer surplus, profit, and social welfare. Contemporary Economic Policy 1995;13:113-24.

Goel RK, Morey MJ. The interdependence of cigarette and liquor demand. South Econ J 1998;October:451-9.

National evaluations conducted in the 1970s

Baltagi BH, Levin D. Estimating dynamic demand for cigarettes using panel data: the effects of bootlegging, taxation and advertising reconsidered. Review of Economics and Statistics 1986;68:148-55.

Bishop JA, Yoo JH. Health scare, excise taxes and advertising ban in the cigarette demand and supply. Southern Economic Journal 1985;52:402-11.

Chaloupka F. Clean indoor air laws, addiction, and cigarette smoking. Applied Economics 1992.

Chaloupka FJ. Rational addictive behavior and cigarette smoking. Journal of Political Economy 1991;99:722-42.

Douglas S, Hariharan G. The hazard of starting smoking: estimates from a split population duration model. Journal of Health Economics 1994;13:213-30.

Fujii ET. The demand for cigarettes: further empirical evidence and its implications for public policy. Applied Economics 1980;12:479-89.

Lewit EM, Coate D. The potential for using excise taxes to reduce smoking. Journal of Health Economics 1982;1:121-45.

Schneider L, Klein B, Murphy KM. Governmental regulation of cigarette health information. Journal of Law and Economics 1981;24:575-612.

Young T. The demand for cigarettes: alternative specifications of Fujii's model. Applied Economics 1983;15:203-11.

Canada

Galbraith JW, Kaiserman M. Taxation, smuggling and demand for cigarettes in Canada: Evidence from time-series data. Journal of Health Economics 1997;16:287-301.

Hamilton VH, Levinton C, St-Pierre Y, Grimard F. The effect of tobacco tax cuts on cigarette smoking in Canada [see comments]. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1997;156:187-91.

Mummery WK, Hagen LC. Tobacco pricing, taxation, consumption and revenue: Alberta 1985-1995. Canadian Journal of Public Health Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique 1996;87:314-6.

United Kingdom

Jones A. UK demand for cigarettes 1954-1986, a double-hurdle approach. Journal of Health Economics 1989;133-41.

Townsend J, Roderick P, Cooper J. Cigarette smoking by socioeconomic group, sex, and age: effects of price, income, and health publicity [see comments]. BMJ 1994;309:923-7.,

Townsend JL. Cigarette tax, economic welfare, and social class patterns of smoking. Applied Economics 1987;19:355-65.

Austria

Worgotter GF, Kunze M. Cigarette prices and cigarette consumption in Austria, 1955-1983. New York State Journal of Medicine 1986;86:478-9.

Finland

Pekurinen M. The demand for tobacco products in Finland. British Journal of Addiction 1989;84:1183-92.

Switzerland

(Two reports count as a stand-alone study)

Leu R. The effects of cigarette price and anti-smoking publicity on cigarette consumption in Switzerland. Revue d Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique 1979;27:359-62.

Leu R. Anti-smoking publicity, taxation, and the demand for cigarettes. Journal of Health Economics 1984;3:101-16.

New Zealand

Laugesen M, Meads C. Tobacco advertising restrictions, price, income and tobacco consumption in OECD countries, 1960-1986 [see comments]. British Journal of Addiction 1991;86:1343-54.