TY - JOUR
T1 - Death and tobacco taxes
AU - Moore, Michael J.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This article analyzes the effect of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality. Reduced-form regressions of mortality rates on tobacco taxes for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, alcoholic beverage taxes, age distribution, and unobserved health trends indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in smoking-related mortality. Evidence on the complementary relationship between alcohol and tobacco as it relates to health outcomes is also presented. A 10% increase in the tobacco tax is projected to save over 6,000 lives a year.
AB - This article analyzes the effect of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality. Reduced-form regressions of mortality rates on tobacco taxes for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, alcoholic beverage taxes, age distribution, and unobserved health trends indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in smoking-related mortality. Evidence on the complementary relationship between alcohol and tobacco as it relates to health outcomes is also presented. A 10% increase in the tobacco tax is projected to save over 6,000 lives a year.
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U2 - 10.2307/2555934
DO - 10.2307/2555934
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030539490
SN - 0741-6261
VL - 27
SP - 415
EP - 428
JO - RAND Journal of Economics
JF - RAND Journal of Economics
IS - 2
ER -
