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Death and Tobacco Taxes

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This article analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality. Reduced-form regressions of mortality rates on tobacco taxes for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, alcoholic beverage taxes, age distribution, and unobserved health trends indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in smoking-related mortality. Evidence on the complementary relationship between alcohol and tobacco as it relates to health outcomes is also presented. A 10% increase in the tobacco tax is projected to save over 5,000 lives a year.

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  • Michael J. Moore, 1996. "Death and Tobacco Taxes," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 27(2), pages 415-248, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:rje:randje:v:27:y:1996:i:summer:p:415-248
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    1. Michael J. Moore & James W. Hughes, 2001. "The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and Its Regulation," NBER Chapters, in: Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4, pages 31-76, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Cook, Philip J. & Moore, Michael J., 2000. "Alcohol," Handbook of Health Economics, in: A. J. Culyer & J. P. Newhouse (ed.), Handbook of Health Economics, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 30, pages 1629-1673, Elsevier.
    3. Carbone, Jared C. & Kverndokk, Snorre & Rogeberg, Ole Jorgen, 2005. "Smoking, health, risk, and perception," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 631-653, July.
    4. Restrepo, Brandon J. & Rieger, Matthias, 2016. "Trans fat and cardiovascular disease mortality: Evidence from bans in restaurants in New York," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 176-196.
    5. Michael Grossman, 2005. "Individual Behaviours and Substance Use: The Role of Price," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, in: Substance Use: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics, pages 15-39, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    6. José Julián Escario & José Alberto Molina, "undated". "Do tobacco taxes reduce lung cancer mortality?," Working Papers 2000-17, FEDEA.
    7. Diana Bowser & David Canning, 2013. "The effect of health improvements due to tobacco control on earnings in the United States," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(36), pages 5021-5030, December.
    8. Cook, Philip J. & Moore, Michael J., 1999. "Alcohol," Working Papers 156, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
    9. Chesson, Harrell & Harrison, Paul & Kassler, William J, 2000. "Sex Under the Influence: The Effect of Alcohol Policy on Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates in the United States," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 43(1), pages 215-238, April.
    10. Théophile T Azomahou & Racky Baldé & Abdoulaye Diagne & Pape Yona Mané & Ibrahima Sory Kaba, 2019. "Public finances and tobacco taxation with product variety: Theory and application to Senegal and Nigeria," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-21, February.

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