State Cigarette Tax Increase Would Cut Smoking Rate and Ease Costs

Publication Date: January 2006

Publisher: Indiana University. Center for Urban Policy and the Environment

Author(s): Frank J. Chaloupka; Eric R. Wright; Anthony H. Lawson; Kari Jo Christensen

Research Area: Banking and finance; Health

Type: Brief

Coverage: Indiana

Abstract:

This issue brief presents an analysis of the impact of an increase in the state cigarette excise tax. An increase would decrease smoking rates, increase revenue from state cigarette excise taxes, ease healthcare costs, and decrease the rates of premature death and smoking-related disease.