{"title":"Elasticities of Youth Demand for e-Cigarettes - A Commentary on Corrigan et al","authors":"I. Irvine","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3800120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3800120","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent paper Corrigan et al (2020) claim that taxes on e-cigarette devices such as Juul will strongly diminish the demand for these devices by youth, and that reduction in demand will have clear beneficial health effects. In this commentary I show that their conclusion does not follow from the experiment they perform in arriving at their claim. Their laboratory experiment supporting the claims is seriously mis-constructed.","PeriodicalId":368199,"journal":{"name":"Child Public Health eJournal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116892542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}