Taxation reduces smoking but may not reduce smoking disparities in youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines the extent to which cigarette taxes affect smoking behaviour and disparities in smoking among adolescents by gender, socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity.

Methods

We used US nationally representative, repeated cross-sectional data from the 2005 to 2016 Monitoring the Future study to evaluate the relationship between state cigarette taxes and past 30-day current smoking, smoking intensity, and first cigarette and daily smoking initiation using modified Poisson and linear regression models, stratified by grade. We tested for interactions between tax and gender, SES and race/ethnicity on the additive scale using average marginal effects.

Results

We found that higher taxes were associated with lower smoking outcomes, with variation b

SUBMITTER: Fleischer NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546443 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature