Goldin, Jacob; Homonoff, Tatiana - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
time variation in cigarette excise and sales tax rates to survey data about cigarette consumption from the Behavioral Risk … Factor Surveillance System. Whereas both high- and low-income consumers respond to cigarette excise taxes (which appear in … register). Our results suggest that policymakers can ease the financial burden of cigarette taxes on the poor by levying such …