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The Effects of a Minimum Cigarette Purchase Age of 21 on Prenatal Smoking and Infant Health

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  • Ji Yan

    (Department of Economics, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA)

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A key goal of US public health policies is to reduce costly adverse birth outcomes to which prenatal smoking is a crucial contributor. This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of a minimum cigarette purchase age of 21 implemented in the state of Pennsylvania on prenatal smoking and infant health. Using a regression discontinuity method, it shows this smoking age of 21 reduces the prenatal daily cigarette consumption by 15 percent and lowers the incidence of low birth weight infants by 19 percent. These findings shed new light on the current political debate over raising the smoking age.

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  • Ji Yan, 2014. "The Effects of a Minimum Cigarette Purchase Age of 21 on Prenatal Smoking and Infant Health," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 40(3), pages 289-308, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:40:y:2014:i:3:p:289-308
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    1. Wojciech Gryzbowski & Aleksandra Adamicz & Hanna Wysocki, 2021. "The Social Externality of Health Insurance: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Children Mortality," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 2, pages 262-279, July.
    2. Hope Corman & Dhaval Dave & Nancy E. Reichman, 2018. "Evolution of the Infant Health Production Function," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 85(1), pages 6-47, July.
    3. Rahi Abouk & Scott Adams, 2017. "Compliance Inspections of Tobacco Retailers and Youth Smoking," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 3(1), pages 10-32, Winter.
    4. Tennekoon, Vidhura S.B.W., 2023. "Purchase restrictions as a tobacco control policy: An analysis of the effect on adverse birth outcomes," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 967-974.
    5. Settele, Sonja & Ewijk, Reyn van, 2018. "Can cigarette taxes during pregnancy mitigate the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 130-148.
    6. Leah K. Lakdawala & David Simon, 2017. "The Intergenerational Consequences of Tobacco Policy: A Review of Policy's Influence on Maternal Smoking and Child Health," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 84(1), pages 229-274, July.

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