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Journal Article
The impacts of product characteristics and regulatory environment on smokers’ preferences for tobacco and alcohol: Evidence from a volumetric choice experiment
2025
Overview
Concurrent use of alcohol and cigarettes is well-documented in the literature. However, it is unclear how e-cigarette regulations in a growing number of localities impact the use of tobacco and alcohol in the US. This study aims to evaluate the impacts of excise taxes, tobacco use restrictions in restaurants/bars, and availability of alcohol flavor in e-cigarettes on tobacco consumption, and their cross impacts on alcohol consumption.
A total of 181 US adult smokers who were using e-cigarettes and consuming alcohol participated in online volumetric choice experiments and reported on the quantity they would purchase among cigarettes, closed-system e-cigarettes, beer, and one other alcohol product (wine/liquor) under varying policy scenarios.
Estimated own-price elasticities of demand for beer, liquor/wine, and cigarettes were -0.10, -0.11, and -0.16, respectively (p < 0.001). Higher beer (cross-price elasticity = 0.13) and liquor/wine prices (cross-price elasticity = 0.05) increased e-cigarette consumption (p < 0.05). If e-cigarettes were allowed in bars/restaurants, their consumption increased by 2.4 units (p < 0.001), and if cigarettes were allowed in bars/restaurants, e-cigarette consumption increased by 1.9 units (p < 0.01), relative to the mean consumption level. Greater reported weekly spending on alcohol and/or tobacco was associated with higher consumption of all products (p < 0.001).
Higher taxes or prices may reduce the consumption of beer, liquor/wine, and cigarettes. E-cigarettes are economic substitutes for alcohol among smokers who are currently drinking and using e-cigarettes. Regulating tobacco indoor use will have an impact on e-cigarette consumption.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Alcohol Drinking - economics
/ Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
/ Alcohol Drinking - psychology
/ Alcoholic Beverages - economics
/ Analysis
/ Beer
/ Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
/ Commerce
/ Consent
/ Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems - economics
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Smokers
/ Smoking
/ Taxation
/ Taxes
/ Tobacco
/ Tobacco Products - economics
/ Vaping
/ Wine
/ Wines
