ArticleAmerican journal of public health2007
The $5 man: the underground economic response to a large cigarette tax increase in New York City.
Article in American journal of public health, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03194958 (Helping the Poor Quit Smoking), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers.
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Helping the Poor Quit Smoking: Specialized Quitlines and Meeting Basic Needs
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- Out of view but in plain sight: the illegal sale of single cigarettes.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2014Article
- Excise tax avoidance: the case of state cigarette taxes.Journal of health economics · 2013Article
- The effectiveness of cigarette price and smoke-free homes on low-income smokers in the United States.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Cigarette price minimization strategies in the United States: price reductions and responsiveness to excise taxes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Article
- Ministers' perceptions of church-based programs to provide depression care for African Americans.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2013Article
- The impact of cigarette excise tax increases on purchasing behaviors among New York city smokers.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Cigarette price-minimization strategies by U.S. smokers.American journal of preventive medicine · 2013Article
- Contraband tobacco on post-secondary campuses in Ontario, Canada: analysis of discarded cigarette butts.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Fiscal and policy implications of selling pipe tobacco for roll-your-own cigarettes in the United States.PloS one · 2012Article
- The role of antipsychotics in smoking and smoking cessation.CNS drugs · 2011Review
- Socio-economic variation in price minimizing behaviors: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe examined the mechanisms by which living in a disadvantaged minority community influences smoking and illegal cigarette sale and purchasing behaviors after a large cigarette tax increase.
methodsData were collected from 14 focus groups (n=104) that were conducted during the spring of 2003 among Blacks aged 18 years and older living in New York City.
resultsA large tax increase led to what focus group participants described as a pervasive illegal cigarette market in a low-income minority community. Perceived pro-smoking community norms, a stressful social and economic environment, and the availability of illegal cigarettes worked together to reinforce smoking and undermine cessation.
conclusionsAlthough interest in quitting was high, bootleggers created an environment in which reduced-price cigarettes were easier to access than cessation services. This activity continues to undermine the public health goals of the tax increase.
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