A growing share of the US population uses e‐cigarettes but the optimal regulation of these
controversial products remains an open question. We conduct a discrete choice experiment …

E-cigarette use has surged in recent years. Many of these new users are cigarette smokers.
It is unclear whether e-cigarette adoption by smokers will lead to improved public health due …

ABSTRACT A small but rapidly growing percentage of the US population uses e-cigarettes.
Policymakers, especially the FDA, are concerned about their public health impact and thus …

Only recently introduced into the US market, e-cigarettes have been aggressively promoted,
and use is increasing rapidly among both adults and youths. At the heart of the regulatory …

Abstract Introduction Many European Union (EU) Member States have expressed the need
for EU legislation to clarify the issue of e-cigarette taxation, but the economic evidence to …

The debate for and against making e-cigarettes available to smokers is to a large extent
empirical. We do not know the long-term health effects of vaping and we do not know how …

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‐cigarettes are controversial products. They may help addicted smokers to consume
nicotine in a less harmful manner or to quit tobacco cigarettes entirely, but these products …

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 …

Objective A pressing tobacco policy concern is how to help smokers who have little interest
in quitting cigarettes, a group that often suffers severe health consequences. By switching …