| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w0655 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 0655 |
| The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking | |
| Eugene M. Lewit; Douglas Coate; Michael Grossman | |
| 发表日期 | 1981-04-01 |
| 出版年 | 1981 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the impact of three sets of government regulations on the demand for cigarettes by teenagers in the United States. These are: (1) the excise tax on cigarettes, (2) the Fairness Doctrine of the Federal Communications Commission, which resulted in the airing of anti-smoking messages on radio and television from July 1, 1967 to January 1, 1971,and (3) the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970, which banned pro-smoking cigarette advertising on radio and television after January 1, 1971.Teenage price elasticities of demand for cigarettes are substantial and much larger than the corresponding adult price elasticities. The teenage smoking participation elasticity equals -1.2, and the quantity smoked elasticity equals -1.4. It follows that, if future reductions in youth smoking are desired, an increase in the Federal excise tax is a potent policy to accomplish this goal. The contention of the proponents of the advertising ban that the Fairness Doctrine failed in the case of teenagers is incorrect. According to our results, the doctrine had a substantial negative impact on teenage smoking participation rates. Extrapolations suggest that the advertising ban was no better or worse a policy than the Fairness Doctrine. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w0655 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/557857 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Eugene M. Lewit,Douglas Coate,Michael Grossman. The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking. 1981. |
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