Background Tobacco use is the single largest preventable risk factor for premature death of
non-communicable diseases and the second leading cause of cardiovascular disease. In …

We provide a broad discussion of the dark side of innovation, before introducing the papers
of the special issue. We start with a critical reply to optimists, complementing the list of …

Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world
since the UK Royal College of Physicians' and the US Surgeon General's reports in the …

We estimate the effect of e-cigarette tax rates on e-cigarette prices, e-cigarette sales, and
sales of other tobacco products using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner data from 2013 to 2019. We …

We study the effects of traditional cigarette and e-cigarette taxes on use of these products
among adults in the United States. Data are drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor …

E-cigarettes provide nicotine in a vapor form, which is considered less harmful than the
smoke from combustible cigarettes because it does not contain the toxins that are found in …

We model optimal e-cigarette regulation and estimate key parameters. Using tax changes
and scanner data, we estimate relatively elastic demand. A demographic shift-share …

E‐cigarette taxes are an active area of legislation and have important regulatory implications
by proxying e‐cigarette accessibility. We examine the effect of e‐cigarette taxes on …

Background The E-cigarette, or Vaping Product-Use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)
Outbreak of 2019 hospitalised thousands and killed dozens of people in the USA and raised …

Background Although e-cigarette excise taxes have great potential to prevent the initiation
and escalation of e-cigarette use, little information is available on pricing activities of online …