TY - JOUR
T1 - Clean indoor air laws, cigarette excise taxes, and smoking
T2 - Results from the current population survey-tobacco use supplement, 2003–2011
AU - Mojtabai, Ramin
AU - Riehm, Kira E.
AU - Cohen, Joanna E.
AU - Alexander, G. Caleb
AU - Rutkow, Lainie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [ R01DA042738 ]. Ms. Riehm was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program ( 5T32MH014592-39 ; PI: Peter Zandi) and by a Doctoral Foreign Study Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - There was an increase in the number and coverage of state and local clean indoor air laws in the US during the past fifteen years. These laws coincided with increases in federal, state, and local cigarette excise taxes. In light of these changes, the objective of this study was to examine the association between clean indoor air laws, cigarette excise taxes and smoking patterns between 2003 and 2011. Using data on 62,165 adult participants in the 2003 and 2010/2011 Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement who reported smoking cigarettes in the past year, we examined the association of state and county workplace, bar, and restaurant clean indoor air laws and cigarette excise taxes with quitting and current every-day smoking. Between 2003 and 2011, quitting increased and daily smoking among those who continued to smoke decreased significantly. Participants living in states and counties with higher excise taxes and more comprehensive clean indoor air laws had a higher likelihood of quitting and lower likelihood of everyday smoking. Based on the assumption of no uncontrolled confounding, changes in taxes and laws accounted for 64.8% of the increase in smoking cessation and all of the reduction in everyday smoking. Implementation of state and county-level clean indoor air laws and cigarette taxes appears to have achieved the intended goal of encouraging smokers to either quit or reduce their frequency of smoking.
AB - There was an increase in the number and coverage of state and local clean indoor air laws in the US during the past fifteen years. These laws coincided with increases in federal, state, and local cigarette excise taxes. In light of these changes, the objective of this study was to examine the association between clean indoor air laws, cigarette excise taxes and smoking patterns between 2003 and 2011. Using data on 62,165 adult participants in the 2003 and 2010/2011 Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement who reported smoking cigarettes in the past year, we examined the association of state and county workplace, bar, and restaurant clean indoor air laws and cigarette excise taxes with quitting and current every-day smoking. Between 2003 and 2011, quitting increased and daily smoking among those who continued to smoke decreased significantly. Participants living in states and counties with higher excise taxes and more comprehensive clean indoor air laws had a higher likelihood of quitting and lower likelihood of everyday smoking. Based on the assumption of no uncontrolled confounding, changes in taxes and laws accounted for 64.8% of the increase in smoking cessation and all of the reduction in everyday smoking. Implementation of state and county-level clean indoor air laws and cigarette taxes appears to have achieved the intended goal of encouraging smokers to either quit or reduce their frequency of smoking.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.06.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 31173803
AN - SCOPUS:85067691899
SN - 0091-7435
VL - 126
JO - Preventive Medicine
JF - Preventive Medicine
M1 - 105744
ER -