| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18805 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18805 |
| The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control | |
| John Cawley; Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-02-15 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are directly asked whether they smoke to control their weight. We find that, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This practice is significantly more common among youths who describe themselves as too fat than those who describe themselves as about the right weight. The derived demand for cigarettes has important implications for tax policy. Under reasonable assumptions, the demand for cigarettes is less price elastic among those who smoke for weight control. Thus, taxes on cigarettes will result in less behavior change (but more revenue collection and less deadweight loss) among those for whom the demand for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to design campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18805 |
| 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/576480 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John Cawley,Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder. The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control. 2013. |
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