Smoking prevalence following the announcement of tobacco tax increases in England between 2007 and 2019: an interrupted time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of announcement of tax increases on factory-made (FM) and roll-your own (RYO) cigarettes in England.

Design, setting and participants

Autoregressive integrated moving average with exogeneous input (ARIMAX) time-series modelling in England, UK. Data were aggregated monthly on 274 890 participants between 2007 and 2019 taking part in the Smoking Toolkit Study (STS).

Measurements

The association of sustained step level changes for tax rises for FM cigarettes and temporary pulse effects for tax rises for RYO cigarettes with smoking, quit attempt and quit success prevalence as well as per-capita self-reported cigarette consumption and cost per cigarette was assessed.

Findings

A 10% rise in tax on RYO cigarettes was associ

SUBMITTER: Beard E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545480 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature