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Is Smoking Delayed Smoking Averted?
Sherry Glied, PhD
The author is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

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FIGURE 1— Long-term reductions in smoking participation produced by a 10% cigarette tax increase.
Sources: Gruber and Zinman,11 Glied12
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FIGURE 2— Age at smoking initiation, by sex and year of birth, median and 75th percentile: National Health Interview Survey, 1997.
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Copyright © 2003 by the American Public Health Association
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