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Youth smoking, cigarette prices, and anti‐smoking sentiment
Author(s) -
DeCicca Philip,
Kenkel Donald,
Mathios Alan,
Shin YoonJeong,
Lim JaeYoung
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.1293
Subject(s) - merge (version control) , youth smoking , cigarette smoking , medicine , empirical evidence , econometrics , environmental health , psychology , tobacco control , economics , computer science , public health , pathology , philosophy , epistemology , information retrieval
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 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.