Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world
since the UK Royal College of Physicians' and the US Surgeon General's reports in the …

There are great differences in smoking-and tobacco-related mortality between American
Indians on the Northern Plains and those in the Southwest that are best explained by (1) …

This paper examines the immediate and long‐term effects of public smoking bans on
smoking prevalence, smoking regularity, smoking intensity, and secondhand tobacco smoke …

Bans on menthol cigarettes have been adopted throughout the European Union, proposed
by the US Food and Drug Administration, and enacted by legislatures in Massachusetts and …

Regulatory policies designed to improve societal welfare by “nudging” consumers to make
better choices are increasingly popular. The application of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) to this …

Countries seeking to address the challenges of taxation in a digitalizing economy have
proposed or enacted indirect digital services taxes (DSTs) rather than income taxes in part to …

Prior research suggests that income and child maltreatment are related, but questions
remain about the specific types of economic factors that affect the risk of maltreatment. The …

We exploit a quasi-experiment created when New York State began in 2011 to tax cigarettes
sold on Native American Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity …

Excise taxes are the primary public health strategy used to increase the price of cigarettes in
the United States. Rather than quitting or reducing consumption of cigarettes, some price …

Background Native American tribes, as sovereign nations, are exempt from state tobacco
excise taxation, and self-govern on-reservation activity in the USA. Under Federal law, state …