ArticleHealth economics2025
Comprehensive E-Cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use Among Youth and Adults.
Article in Health economics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Illegal markets for cigarettes and e-cigarettes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of State Flavored E-Cigarette Policy Implementation and E-Cigarette Use.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Local Flavored Tobacco Bans and Youth Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Use.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- Toxicity and Appeal of Flavoured E-Cigarettes and Flavour Ban Outcomes: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Review
- State-Level Flavored E-Cigarette Bans and Initiation Rates Among Youths and Adults.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Unmasking the appeal: voices of young adults prior to World No Tobacco Day at Qatar University.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Comprehensive E-Cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use Among Youth and Adults.Health economics · 2025Article
- The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use.Journal of health economics · 2025Article
- State E-Cigarette Flavor Restrictions and Tobacco Product Use in Youths and Adults.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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Abstract
The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health advocates that flavors may drive youth initiation and continued use of e-cigarettes. Flavors drew further notice from the public health community following the sudden outbreak of lung injury among vapers in 2019, prompting several states to enact sweeping bans on flavored e-cigarettes. In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use and potential spillovers into other tobacco use by youth, young adults, and adults. We utilize both standard difference-in-differences (DID) and synthetic DID methods, in conjunction with four national data sets. We find evidence that young adults decrease their use of e-cigarettes by about two to three percentage points, while increasing cigarette use. For youth, there is some suggestive evidence of increasing cigarette use, though these results are undermined by pre-trend differences between treatment and control units. The bans have no effect on e-cigarette and smoking participation among adults 25 and over. Our findings suggest that statewide comprehensive flavor bans may have generated an unintended consequence by encouraging substitution toward traditional smoking in some populations.
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