Effect of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette and cigarette retail prices and sales, USA, 2014-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To 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.

Design

We 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.

Results

A 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.

SUBMITTER: Diaz MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11478753 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature