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April 2008, Vol 98, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 582-583
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.132647

LETTER

CIGARETTE PRICES, SMOKING, AND THE POOR, REVISITED

Matthew C. Farrelly, PhD and Mark Engelen, BA

Matthew C. Farrelly is with the Public Health and Environment Division and the Public Health Policy Research Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, and the RTI-UNC Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, Research Triangle Park. Mark Engelen is with the Public Health Policy Research Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Matthew C. Farrelly, 3040 Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (e-mail: mcf@rti.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We read the provocative article by Franks et al. with great interest, because it concludes that since the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between states and tobacco companies, there has been a "dramatic decline in the effect of cigarette pack prices on smoking participation in both lower- and higher-income individuals."1 We were impressed with the authors’ thoughtful analytic approach but remained skeptical because their results contradict a large body of previous research.

A meta-analysis examined 523 estimates of price effects and confirmed the conventional wisdom that a 10% increase in cigarette prices leads to a 4% decline in smoking.2 Half . . . [Full Text]






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