Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking in lower-income countries using data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS).Country-level heterogeneity is addressed with fixed effects and by directly controlling for confounding environmental factors such as local anti-smoking sentiment, cigarette advertising, anti-smoking media messages, and compliance with youth access restrictions.We find that cigarette price is an important determinant of both smoking participation and conditional demand.The estimated price elasticity of participation is -0.63.The likelihood of participation decreases with anti-smoking sentiment and increases with exposure to cigarette advertising.The estimated price elasticity of conditional cigarette demand is approximately -1.2.Neither anti-smoking sentiment, cigarette advertising, nor access restrictions have an impact on the intensity of smoking among current smokers, but exposure to anti-smoking media may reduce the number of cigarettes smoked.
DOI: 10.3386/w15781
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1569182062