TY  - JOUR
AU  - DeCicca,Philip
AU  - Kenkel,Donald S.
AU  - Mathios,Alan D.
AU  - Shin,Yoon-Jeong
AU  - Lim,Jae-Young
TI  - Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12458
PY  - 2006
Y2  - August 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12458
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12458.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Philip DeCicca
Department of Economics
422 Kenneth Taylor Hall
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4
CANADA
Tel: 905/525-9140
E-Mail: decicca@mcmaster.ca

Donald S. Kenkel
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853-4401
Tel: 607/255-2594
Fax: 607/255-0799
E-Mail: dsk10@cornell.edu

Alan D. Mathios
182 MVR Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca NY  14853
E-Mail: adm5@cornell.edu

Yoon-Jeong Shin
San 42-14 Bulgwang-Dong
Eunpyeong-Gu
Seoul, 122-705, Korea
E-Mail: yjshin@kihasa.re.kr

Jae-Young Lim
Department of Economics, Hallym University
39 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon
Gangwon-do, 200-702, Korea
E-Mail: jlim@hallym.ac.kr
AB  - 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.
ER  -