@techreport{NBERw12458,
 title = "Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment",
 author = "Philip DeCicca and Donald S. Kenkel and Alan D. Mathios and Yoon-Jeong Shin and Jae-Young Lim",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "12458",
 year = "2006",
 month = "August",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w12458",
 abstract = {In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth smoking in 1992 and 2000.   The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant influence on smoking participation; and state anti-smoking sentiment appears to be a potentially important influence on youth smoking participation.  The cross-sectional results are corroborated by results from discrete time hazard models of smoking initiation that include state fixed effects.  However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette demand by youth and young adult smokers.},
}