The impact of price and tobacco control policies on the demand for electronic nicotine delivery systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While much is known about the demand for conventional cigarettes, little is known about the determinants of demand for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS or e-cigarettes). The goal of this study is to estimate the own and cross-price elasticity of demand for e-cigarettes and to examine the impact of cigarette prices and smoke-free policies on e-cigarette sales.

Methods

Quarterly e-cigarette prices and sales and conventional cigarette prices from 2009 to 2012 were constructed from commercial retail store scanner data from 52 U.S. markets, for food, drug and mass stores, and from 25 markets, for convenience stores. Fixed-effects models were used to estimate the own and cross-price elasticity of demand for e-cigarettes and associations between e-cigarette sal

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4145658 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature