Assessing the Efficacy of Increasing Access to Tobacco Harm Reduction Products: New Evidence on Intended and Unintended Effect

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Abstract Electronic nicotine device systems (ENDS) are devices in which nicotine and other ingredients such as ?avors are heated into a vapor and inhaled (“ENDS use” or “vaping”). ENDS were ?rst imported into the United States in 2006 and by 2014 they overtook cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product among teenagers. This research project will assess both the efficacy and distributional effects of ENDS access policies (i.e., e-cigarette taxes, indoor air laws, ?avor bans, minimum purchasing ages): (1) What are the spillover effects of ENDS access policies on non- tobacco-related public health outcomes, such as marijuana use, problem drinking, prescription opioid misuse, and harder drug use? (2) How do ENDS access policies affect dynamics in initiation of tobacco products and use of the informal social market for tobacco? (3) Do racial/ethnic/sexual minorities see important smoking cessation-related health gains from increased access to tobacco harm reduction products? To answer these questions, we will use “difference-in-differences” models (and discrete-time hazard models) and ten nationally representative datasets: 1) national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), 2) the state YRBS, 3) Monitoring the Future (MTF), 4) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), 5) National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 6) Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH), 7) Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement, 8) Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 9) the Vital Statistics Multiple-Cause-of-Death Mortality Files, and 10) Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Our analysis sample will cover the period 2005-2025.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date3/11/243/11/27

Funding

  • San Diego State University Foundation: $122,840.00

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