ArticleJournal of health economics2019
E-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws and traditional cigarette use among rural pregnant teenagers.
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- A systematic review and network meta-analysis of population-level interventions to tackle smoking behaviour.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review for the impacts of global approaches to regulating electronic nicotine products.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
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- Effects of E-Cigarette Minimum Legal Sales Ages on Youth Tobacco Use in the United States.Journal of risk and uncertainty · 2023Article
- The impact of JUUL market entry on cigarette sales: evidence from a major chain retailer in Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
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- Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use.Journal of health economics · 2023Article
- The Long-term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking.American journal of health economics · 2023Article
- The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data.Journal of health economics · 2022Article
- Young adult responses to taxes on cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Observational
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Abstract
Teenagers under 18 could legally purchase e-cigarettes until states passed minimum legal sale age laws. These laws may have curtailed teenagers' use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. We investigate the effect of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on prenatal cigarette smoking and birth outcomes for underage rural teenagers using data on all births from 2010 to 2016 from 32 states. We find that the laws increased prenatal smoking by 0.6 percentage points (pp) overall. These effects were concentrated in prepregnancy smokers, with no effect on prepregnancy non-smokers. These results suggest that the laws reduced cigarette smoking cessation during pregnancy rather than causing new cigarette smoking initiation. Our results may indicate an unmet need for assistance with smoking cessation among pregnant teenagers.
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