Alamar Benjamin, Glantz Stanton A
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2006 Aug;96(8):1359-63. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.069617. Epub 2006 Jun 29.
Taxes on cigarettes have long been used to help reduce cigarette consumption. Social factors also affect cigarette consumption, but this impact has not been quantified. We computed a social unacceptability index based on individuals' responses to questions regarding locations where smoking should be allowed. A regression analysis showed that the social unacceptability index and price had similar elasticities and that their effects were independent of each other. If, through an active tobacco control campaign, the average individual's views on the social unacceptability of smoking changed to more closely resemble the views of California residents, there would be a 15% drop in cigarette consumption, equivalent to a 1.17 dollars increase in the excise tax on cigarettes.
对香烟征税长期以来一直被用于帮助减少香烟消费。社会因素也会影响香烟消费，但这种影响尚未得到量化。我们根据个人对关于应允许吸烟场所问题的回答计算了一个社会不可接受指数。回归分析表明，社会不可接受指数和价格具有相似的弹性，且它们的影响相互独立。如果通过积极的控烟运动，普通个人对吸烟社会不可接受性的看法变得更接近加利福尼亚居民的看法，香烟消费将下降15%，这相当于香烟消费税提高1.17美元。
