Replication data for: The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco Products, Tar, and Nicotine Purchases among Adults: Evidence from Household Panel Data

We analyze the Nielsen Household Consumer Panel to estimate the effects of tobacco policies on tobacco-related purchases using within-household variation. We also match purchases to cigarette contents from NHANES. Higher cigarette taxes reduce cigarette purchases and increase smoking cessation product purchases, while estimates of smoking ban effects are less precisely estimated. Smokeless tobacco (SLT) taxes lead to reductions in SLT use but also lead to substitution among SLT products. We find evidence that cigarette taxes induce purchases of cigarettes with higher tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide contents, but this compensatory behavior is overwhelmed by the reduction in cigarettes purchased.

我们利用尼尔森家庭消费者面板（Nielsen Household Consumer Panel）数据，通过家庭内变异分析烟草政策对烟草相关购买行为的影响。同时，我们将购买数据与美国国家健康与营养检查调查（NHANES）中的香烟成分数据进行匹配。研究结果显示，提高香烟税会减少香烟购买量，同时增加戒烟产品的购买量；而针对禁烟令影响的估计精度相对较低。无烟烟草（Smokeless tobacco, SLT）税不仅能够降低无烟烟草的使用量，还会引发无烟烟草产品间的替代行为。我们还发现，香烟税会促使消费者购买焦油、尼古丁和一氧化碳含量更高的香烟，但这种补偿性行为最终被香烟购买总量的下降所抵消。