Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use

Rahi Abouk; Charles Courtemanche; Dhaval Dave; Bo Feng; Abigail S. Friedman; Johanna Catherine Maclean; Michael F. Pesko; Joseph J. Sabia; Samuel Safford

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102720

Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use

Rahi Abouk
, Charles Courtemanche
, Dhaval Dave
, Bo Feng
, Abigail S. Friedman
, Johanna Catherine Maclean
, Michael F. Pesko
, Joseph J. Sabia
, Samuel Safford

Economics

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Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has contributed to aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and mid-2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. We use two large national surveys (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System) to estimate the impact of ENDS taxes on youth tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth ENDS consumption, with estimated ENDS tax elasticities of -0.06 to -0.21. However, we estimate sizable positive cigarette cross-tax effects, suggesting economic substitution between cigarettes and ENDS for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any public health gains.

Idioma original	English
Número de artículo	102720
Publicación	Journal of Health Economics
Volumen	87
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102720
Estado	Published - ene 2023

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Author order is alphabetic and lead authorship is shared among all the authors. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01DA045016 (PI: Michael Pesko), R01DA039968 (PI: Dhaval Dave), and an Evidence for Action grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (grant #74869 ; PI: Friedman). Dr. Sabia acknowledges support from San Diego State University's Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies (CHEPS), Dr. Courtemanche acknowledges support from the University of Kentucky's Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, and Dr. Abouk acknowledges support from William Paterson University's Cannabis Research Institute. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of any funders.

Financiadores	Número del financiador
Evidence for Action
University of Kentucky's Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise
William Paterson University's Cannabis Research Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	R01DA039968, R01DA045016
Author National Institute on Drug Abuse DA031791 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Drug Abuse DA006634 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism AA026117 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism AA028162 Elizabeth G Pitts National Institute of General Medical Sciences GM102773 Elizabeth G Pitts Peter McManus Charitable Trust Mark J Ferris National Institute on Drug Abuse
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	74869
San Diego State University

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