Cigarette taxes and maternal smoking.

Title: Cigarette taxes and maternal smoking.
Identifier: AAI3024777
identifier: 3024777
Creator: Colman, Gregory Joseph.
Contributor: Adviser: Ted Joyce
Date: 2001
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Economics, General
Abstract: Cigarette smoking by the mother during pregnancy risks the health of the mother and the infant. This study examines whether cigarette taxes are an appropriate way to reduce maternal smoking. Taxes would be appropriate if pregnant women, whose smoking is more costly to society than smoking by non-pregnant women, are more sensitive to changes in cigarette taxes than non-pregnant women. Using the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey (PRAMS) from the CDC, we find that pregnant women are, if anything, less sensitive to changes in cigarette taxes than non-pregnant women. We also find that increases in cigarette taxes raise the likelihood than a woman will quit smoking when she becomes pregnant, and reduce the likelihood that she will resume smoking afterward.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.