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June 2005, Vol 95, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 994-995
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.057687

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Access to Low-Taxed Cigarettes Deters Smoking Cessation Attempts

Andrew Hyland, PhD, Cheryl Higbee, BA, Qiang Li, MS, Joseph E. Bauer, PhD, Gary A. Giovino, PhD, MS, Terry Alford, BA and K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH

All authors are with the Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Andrew Hyland, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Health Behavior, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263 (e-mail: andrew.hyland{at}roswellpark.org).

We examined whether smokers who purchased low-taxed cigarettes from American Indian reservations had lower quit attempt and cessation rates than did smokers who purchased cigarettes from full-price outlets. Smokers who bought cigarettes from American Indian reservations were half as likely to make a quit attempt and had a nonsignificant trend toward lower cessation rates (20% vs 10%) compared with those who bought full-priced cigarettes. Interventions that reduce price differentials are suggested to maximize the public health benefit of cigarette excise taxes.






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