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March 2003, Vol 93, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 412-416
© 2003 American Public Health Association

HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS FORUM

Is Smoking Delayed Smoking Averted?

Sherry Glied, PhD

The author is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sherry Glied, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 West 168th, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: sag1{at}columbia.edu).

Antismoking efforts often target teenagers in the hope of producing a new generation of never smokers. Teenagers are more responsive to tobacco taxes than are adults.

The author summarizes recent evidence suggesting that delaying smoking initiation among teenagers through higher taxes does not generate proportionate reductions in prevalence rates through adulthood. In consequence, the impact of taxes on smoking among youths overstates the potential long-term public health effects of this tobacco control strategy.




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