ArticleTobacco control2025
Effect of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette and cigarette retail prices and sales, USA, 2014-2019.
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- The impact of e-cigarette taxation: a systematic review and meta-analysis on usage, pricing strategies, and public health implications.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Changes in price, income and e-cigarette affordability for young people in the USA from 2015 to 2021.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Assessing the demand for cigarettes and e-cigarettes among US adult e-cigarette users: a cross-sectional study using a demand system approach.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Projected Impact of Higher E-cigarette or Combustible Cigarette Taxes on Use of Both Products in the U.S.AJPM focus · 2025Article
- Smokeless tobacco excise taxes in the US: Standardizing the measurement for empirical analysis.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Changes in e-cigarette use and related behaviors following the 2022 e-cigarette tax increase in China: A prospective longitudinal observational study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Scoping of Policy Impacts for Regulating E-cigarettes (SPIRE): findings from a data and decision analytic model mapping project.NIHR open research · 2025Article
- Increased e-cigarette use prevalence is associated with decreased smoking prevalence among US adults.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- How do users compare the costs between nicotine vaping products and cigarettes? Findings from the 2016-2020 International Tobacco Control United States surveys.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo use a standardised e-cigarette tax measure to examine the impact of e-cigarette taxes on the price and sales of e-cigarettes and cigarettes in the USA.
designWe used State Line versions of NielsenIQ Retail Scanner data from quarter 4 of 2014 through quarter 4 of 2019 to calculate e-cigarette and cigarette prices and sales in 23 US states. We then estimated how these outcomes are associated with standardised state-level e-cigarette taxes, controlling for state fixed effects, quarter-by-year fixed effects, cigarette taxes, other tobacco control policies and other state-level time-varying characteristics.
resultsA real $1 increase in the e-cigarette standardised tax increases the price of 1 mL of e-liquid between $0.43 and $0.59 depending on specification. Controlling for fixed effects and cigarette taxes, a 10% increase in e-cigarette taxes is estimated to reduce e-cigarette sales by 0.5% and increase cigarette sales by 0.1%, though both results are attenuated and statistically insignificant in a model with full controls.
conclusionsOur study finds that e-cigarette taxes increase e-cigarette retail prices by approximately half of the tax. Further, e-cigarette taxes are associated with reduced sales of e-cigarettes and increased sales of cigarettes in some specifications. Our estimates are sizably lower than from other studies using sales and survey data.
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