Cigarette price-minimization strategies by U.S. smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smokers may react to cigarette excise tax increases by engaging in price-minimization strategies (i.e., finding ways to reduce the cost of cigarette smoking) rather than by quitting or reducing their cigarette use, thereby reducing the public health benefits of such tax increases.

Purpose

To evaluate the state and national prevalence of five common cigarette price-minimization strategies and the size of price reductions obtained from these strategies.

Methods

Using data from the 2009-2010 National Adult Tobacco Survey, the prevalence of five common price-minimization strategies by type of strategy and by smoker's cigarette consumption level were estimated. The price reductions associated with these price-minimization strategies also were evaluated. Analyses

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4603745 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature