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The Impact of Nonrevenue Maximizing Factors on State‐Level Cigarette Tax Rates
Author(s) -
Hoover Gary A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1093/cep/byg016
Subject(s) - public economics , economics , state (computer science) , consumption (sociology) , business , demographic economics , algorithm , sociology , computer science , social science
This article examines the influence that certain publicly and privately funded programs have on state‐level cigarette tax setting behavior. The article finds that the impact of Project ASSIST (a federally sponsored program designed to decrease cigarette consumption) has had a marginal impact on taxes in selected states in the United States. In addition, private giving to the American Cancer Society has had a statistically insignificant impact on tax‐setting behavior. (JEL H20 , H29 )