TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hansen, Benjamin
AU  - Sabia, Joseph J.
AU  - Rees, Daniel I.
        TI  - Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
        PY  - 2015/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9144
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9144
        AB  - Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four additional waves of YRBS data (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013). Our results suggest that youths have become much less responsive to cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013.
        KW  - youth smoking
KW  - tobacco control
KW  - cigarette tax
        ER  -