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The Effects of Traditional Cigarette and E-Cigarette Taxes on Adult Tobacco Product Use
We study the effects of traditional cigarette tax rate changes and e-cigarette tax adoption on use of these products among U.S. adults. Data are drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey data over the period 2011 to 2017. Using a differences-in-differences model, we find that higher traditional cigarette taxes reduce adult traditional cigarette use and increase adult e-cigarette use, suggesting that the products are economic substitutes. E-cigarette tax adoption reduces e-cigarette use, with some heterogeneity across groups, and dilutes the own-tax responsiveness of traditional cigarettes.
E-cigarette attitudes and use in a sample of Australians aged 15–30 years
Although you can’t legally buy nicotine e-cigarettes without a prescription, sales to minors is prohibitted and promotion of e-cigarettes in general is restricted, new research suggests more young Australians are using them and finding them easy to access. study suggests a need for much greater monitoring and enforcement.
How do underage youth access e-cigarettes in settings with minimum age sales restriction laws? A scoping review
Further research examining how social supply routes operate, including interaction and power dynamics, is crucial to reducing youth vaping. Given widespread access via schools and during social activities and events, exploring how supply routes operate and evolve in these settings should be prioritized. Inadequate compliance with existing sales regulations suggest greater national and local policy enforcement, including fines and licence confiscation for selling to minors, is required at the retailer level.
OTRU - E-Cigarette Enforcement Measures: Theory, Evidence and Regulatory Policy
A grey literature Ontario study that found overall retail compliance with not selling e-cigarettes to minors was 90%. Compliance in specialty vape shops was higher than in convenience stores. There is substantial evidence from conventional tobacco that enforcement of youth access regulations is important to support interventions aimed at reducing illegal sales to youth. Lack of enforcement is associated with higher levels of illegal sales to youth. This report explores the evidence for enforcement and e-cigarettes, as well as other related substances including tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis.
OTRU - E-Cigarette Social Sources: Theory, Evidence and Regulatory Policy
There are no federal policies currently in place aimed at reducing social sources of e-cigarettes. A recent Health Canada report acknowledges that most young people in Canada are accessing vaping products socially through friends and family and not making purchases themselves. While it is well known that youth are accessing e-cigarettes via social sources, interventions to address this problem are under-developed. Findings from conventional tobacco show that it is very likely that raising the minimum age and increasing compliance and enforcement measures are likely to be effective in reducing the overall social supply of e-cigarettes.
Illegal Experimental Tobacco Marketplace II: effects of vaping product bans - findings from the 2020 International Tobacco Control Project
Vaping restrictions may shift users’ preference to the illegal marketplace in a regulatory environment. Evidence of the IETM generalisability in a geographically dispersed sample enhances its utility in tobacco regulatory science.
Efficacy and Safety of E-Cigarette Use for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Among individuals attempting to quit smoking, nicotine e-cigarettes are more efficacious than conventional nicotine replacement or behavioral smoking cessation therapies, and may prove beneficial in reducing smoking-related health risks.
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Evidence suggesting nicotine EC can aid in smoking cessation is consistent across several comparisons. There is now high‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to NRT, and there remains moderate‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to non‐nicotine EC.
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
There is high-certainty evidence that ECs with nicotine increase quit rates compared to NRT and moderate-certainty evidence that they increase quit rates compared to ECs without nicotine.
National Trends in Sales and Price for Commercial Tobacco and Nicotine Products, 2018-2022
Faced with many products, consumers may be influenced by price differences to purchase products with varying levels of harm. In particular, the cheapness of cigars, which are combustible tobacco products with many of the same health risks as cigarettes,6 may perpetuate use. Policies that impact price (ie, taxation and minimum pack size) can discourage use of the most dangerous products and should be considered.
