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ArticlePreventive medicine2020

Cigarette excise taxes, clean indoor air laws, and use of smoking cessation treatments: A mediation analysis.

Ramin Mojtabai, Kira E Riehm, Joanna E Cohen, G Caleb Alexander, Jon S Vernick, Johannes Thrul

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Article in Preventive medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Ramin MojtabaiDepartment of Mental Health, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: rmojtab1@jhu.edu.
Kira E RiehmDepartment of Mental Health, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Joanna E CohenDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Institute for Global Tobacco Control, 2213 McElderry Street, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
G Caleb AlexanderCenter for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, 615 North Wolfe Street, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Epidemiology, 615 North Wolfe Street, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Division of General Internal Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Jon S VernickDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Johannes ThrulDepartment of Mental Health, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Funding

PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32MH014592 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HEATHER E VOLK, Peter P. Zandi · 1985 to 2026
$8.5M
Clean Indoor Air Laws, Cigarette Taxes, and Use of Smoking Cessation TreatmentsR01DA042738 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MOJTABAI, RAMIN · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042738NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH014592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of smoking cessation treatments in the link between clean indoor air laws and cigarette taxes with smoking cessation is not known. This study examined whether the use of smoking cessation treatments mediates the association between clean indoor air laws and cigarette excise taxes, on the one hand, and recent smoking cessation, on the other hand. Using data on 62,165 adult participants in the 2003 and 2010-2011 Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement who reported smoking cigarettes in the past year, we employed structural equation models to quantify the degree to which smoking cessation treatments (prescription medications, nicotine replacement therapy, counseling/support groups, quitlines, and internet-based resources) mediate the association between clean indoor air laws, cigarette excise taxes and recent smoking cessation. Recent smoking cessation was associated with clean indoor air laws in 2003 and with both clean indoor air laws and excise taxes in 2010-2011. Smoking cessation treatments explained between 29% to 39% of the effect of clean indoor air laws and taxes on recent smoking cessation. While clean indoor air laws remained significantly associated with the recent smoking cessation over the first decade of the 2000s, excise taxes gained a more prominent role in later years of that decade. The influence of these policies was partly mediated through the use of smoking cessation treatments, underscoring the importance of policies that make these treatments more widely available.

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Air Pollution, IndoorSmoking CessationTobacco ProductsAdultHumansMediation AnalysisSmokingTaxesTobacco Use Cessation DevicesUnited States

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PMID32333928
PMCPMC7246130

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