The Effect of Online Sales Bans on E-Cigarette Use

Ege Aksu, Dhaval Dave, Daniel Dench, Mike Grossman, Selen Ozdogan, Shubhsri Rajendra and Henry Saffer are grateful to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (5 R01 DA055976), which provided funding support for this research. Joseph Sabia and Charles Courtemanche acknowledge support for this study with a grant from Global Action to End Smoking (formerly known as the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World), an independent, U.S. nonprofit 501(c)(3) grantmaking organization, accelerating science-based efforts worldwide to end the smoking epidemic. Global Action played no role in designing, implementing, data analysis, or interpretation of the study results, nor did Global Action edit or approve any presentations or publications from the study. The contents, selection, and presentation of facts, as well as any opinions expressed, are the sole responsibility of the authors and should not be regarded as reflecting the positions of Global Action to End Smoking. Joseph Sabia further acknowledges support from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies (CHEPS) at San Diego State University, which has received grants from the James Hervey Johnson Educational Trust and the Charles Koch Foundation to support this research. He also acknowledges support from the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at the University of Kentucky. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.