Abstract Cigarette Price Increases Effective in Discouraging Children from Starting to Smoke. Considering the local price for cigarettes, the researchers concluded that a 10 percent increase in price decreased the odds of teenagers' starting smoking by as much as 10 percent.
Youths have very little disposable income.
They have certain fixed dollars each month to spend. The lively seminar was attended by 20 faculty and students from departments around the University of Michigan campus. Dr. Rodu argued that although nicotine is the addicting agent in cigarettes, it is not an important cause of disease. Smokers are addicted to nicotine, however, and therefore need an alternative delivery system of nicotine. Nicotine gum and patch fail to satisfy most addicted smokers, in large part because their delivery of nicotine is too low and too slow.