Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Adolescent Smoking.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our aims were to examine the impact of cigarette taxes and smoke-free legislation on current adolescent smoking and smoking frequency overall as well as test whether there were differential policy effects by age.

Methods

Using data on 717,543 adolescents from 43 states in the 1999-2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we used difference-in-differences regression models to evaluate the impact of tobacco control policies on current adolescent smoking (yes/no) and, separately, smoking frequency (defined as 0, 1-5, 6-29, 30+ days per month). We tested an interaction between age and cigarette taxes and, separately, smoke-free legislation.

Results

From 1999 to 2013, adolescent smoking decreased from 35.3% to 13.9% and 41 of 43 states increased their cigarette tax in rea

SUBMITTER: Hawkins SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4877221 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature