E-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws and traditional cigarette use among rural pregnant teenagers

Michael F. Pesko; Janet M. Currie

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.05.003

E-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws and traditional cigarette use among rural pregnant teenagers

Michael F. Pesko, Janet M. Currie

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Abstract

Teenagers under 18 could legally purchase e-cigarettes until states passed minimum legal sale age laws. These laws may have curtailed teenagers' use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. We investigate the effect of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on prenatal cigarette smoking and birth outcomes for underage rural teenagers using data on all births from 2010 to 2016 from 32 states. We find that the laws increased prenatal smoking in by 0.6 percentage points (pp) overall. These effects were concentrated in prepregnancy smokers, with no effect on prepregnancy non-smokers. These results suggest that the laws reduced cigarette smoking cessation during pregnancy rather than causing new cigarette smoking initiation. Our results may indicate an unmet need for assistance with smoking cessation among pregnant teenagers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	71-90
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Health Economics
Volume	66
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.05.003
State	Published - Jul 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Policy

Keywords

Birth outcomes
E-cigarettes
Electronic nicotine delivery systems
Prenatal smoking
Purchasing age laws
Tobacco control

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