A Critical Review Of The Study “t Relative Effectiveness Of Tax Policy When Considering Mitigating Factors Influencing Tobacco Consumption Of American Youth”
A Critical Review of the Study “The Relative Effectiveness of Tax Policy When Considering Mitigating Factors Influencing Tobacco Consumption of American Youth”
I. Summary
Kristen Collett wrote an article called The Relative Effectiveness of Tax Policy When Considering Mitigating Factors Influencing Tobacco Consumption of American Youth that was published in the August 2003 edition of Issues in Political Economy. While her article has many relevant findings that will have significance for future studies, Collett neglected to include several variables which would have had an important impact on the results. In this paper I will compare and contrast Collett’s article with a similar study written by a more experienced author.
According to Collett, the youth of America have yet to realize the harm tobacco consumption causes, as youth smoking increased in the 90’s and is still rising.
She says that previous studies show that the most effective way to reduce tobacco consumption is through increased excise taxes.
For her study, Collett used data from the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System to get information on the 51 states used in her observation. The STATE database contains current data on tobacco prevention and control as well as data on each state’s consumption.
Collett ran a regression to determine the correlations that exist between the dependent variable, and the seven independent variables. The dependent variable was consumption of 18-24 year olds. The independent variables included, tobacco growing states, excise tax, state control policies, advertising restrictions, consumption of 25-44 year olds, 45-64 year olds, and those over 65 years old.
The correlation between consumption of 18-24 year olds and tobacco growing states was negative, this means that states that grew tobacco had higher consumption. This was not a surprise because the states which have the lowest...
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