| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w0764
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 0764
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| The Potential for Using Excise Taxes to Reduce Smoking |
| Eugene M. Lewit; Douglas Coate
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| 发表日期 | 1981-09-01
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| 出版年 | 1981
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We examine the potential for reducing cigarette smoking through increases in cigarette excise taxes by estimating the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. Using information on individual smoking behavior for a sample of adults in the 1976 Health Interview Survey, we estimate the adult price elasticity of demand for cigarettes to be -.45. Moreover, we find that price has its greatest effect on the smoking behavior of young males and that it operates primarily on the decision to begin smoking regularly rather than via adjustments in the quantity of cigarettes smoked by smokers. It follows that, if future reductions in cigarette smoking are desired, Federal excise tax policy can be a potent tool to accomplish this goal, but only in the long run. An excise tax increase, if maintained in real terms, would discourage smoking participation by successive cohorts of young adults and those reduced smoking levels would be reflected in aggregate smoking as these cohorts mature. In the short run however, the impact of an excise tax increase on aggregate cigarette consumption would be relatively small. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w0764
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/557972
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Eugene M. Lewit,Douglas Coate. The Potential for Using Excise Taxes to Reduce Smoking. 1981.
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