The continuum-of-addiction: cigarette smoking in relation to price among Americans aged 15–29
✍ Scribed by Jeffrey E. Harris; Sandra W. Chan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
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✦ Synopsis
We studied the relationship between current cigarette smoking and price among 34145 respondents, aged 15 -29 years, to the 1992-1993 Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey. The price elasticity of current smoking varied inversely with age: -0.831 (S.E. 0.402) for ages 15 -17; -0.524 (S.E. 0.256) for ages 18-20; -0.370 (S.E. 0.188) for ages 21-23; -0.202 (S.E. 0.175) for ages 24 -26; and -0.095 (S.E. 0.157) for ages 27-29. In response to higher prices, older youth were more likely to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day than to quit entirely. Among 15-17-year-olds, smoking cigarettes 'some days' was more sensitive to price than smoking 'every day'. Cigarette smoking was inversely related to the prices of premium brands, but not discount brands.