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ArticleJournal of health economics2025

The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use.

Chad Cotti, Charles Courtemanche, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson, Joseph J Sabia

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Article in Journal of health economics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Toxicity and Appeal of Flavoured E-Cigarettes and Flavour Ban Outcomes: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Chad CottiDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University. Electronic address: cotticha@msu.edu.
Charles CourtemancheDepartment of Economics and Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, University of Kentucky, IZA & NBER. Electronic address: courtemanche@uky.edu.
Yang LiangCenter for Health Economics & Policy Studies, San Diego State University. Electronic address: yang.liang@sdsu.edu.
Johanna Catherine MacleanSchar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, IZA & NBER. Electronic address: jmacelea@gmu.edu.
Erik NessonDepartment of Economics, Wake Forest University & NBER. Electronic address: nessonet@wfu.edu.
Joseph J SabiaCenter for Health Economics & Policy Studies, San Diego State University & IZA. Electronic address: jsabia@sdsu.edu.

Funding

The Impacts of Vaping Regulations on Perceptions, Access, Prices, and Tobacco UseR01DA045016 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI Michael Pesko · 2018 to 2026
$4.2M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA045016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advocates for sales restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes argue that flavors appeal to young people and lead them down a path to nicotine addiction. Using data from a variety of surveys (Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, and Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health), this study is among the first to examine the effect of state and local restrictions on the sale of flavored electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products on youth and young adult tobacco use. We find robust evidence that the adoption of an ENDS flavor restriction reduces short-run frequent and everyday ENDS use among youths by approximately two-to-three percentage-points. Some evidence suggests that this effect weakens after two years. We also document reductions in ENDS use among young adults aged 18-30 that appear to strengthen after two years. Finally, evidence suggests substitution from flavored ENDS to unflavored ENDS and cigarettes among certain age groups.

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Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsFlavoring AgentsTobacco UseAdolescentAdultCommerceFemaleHumansMaleUnited StatesYoung AdultFlavoring AgentsENDS flavor restrictionsFlavored e-cigarettesYouth tobacco use

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PMID40602199
PMCPMC12865681

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