Employment implications of declining tobacco product sales for the regional economies of the United States
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If sales of tobacco products stopped or gradually declined, all regions of the US except the Southeast tobacco growing states would gain jobs. This is contrary to the claims of the tobacco industry, which argues that loss of tobacco sales will cause widespread job losses. Researchers used a state-of-the-art macroeconomic model to estimate the impact of tobacco sales on the US economy. In 1993, tobacco sales supported 1.8 million jobs in the US. If tobacco sales had been eliminated in 1993, the Southeast would have lost 303,000 jobs, but every other region would have gained tens of thousands of jobs. The overall impact would be a net gain of 133,000 jobs nationwide by the year 2000. This occurs because people who no longer buy cigarettes would spend that money on other goods and services. The farming, manufacturing, retail and wholesale sectors would lose jobs, but most other sectors would gain jobs. A more likely scenario is that tobacco sales will slowly decline. This would reduce the job loss in the Southeast, but every other region would still gain jobs.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Tobacco use and usual source of cigarettes among high school students - United States, 1995
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Analysis of the 1995 Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates that more teenagers are smoking and many are skirting laws to prevent tobacco use by minors. Of 10,904 high school students surveyed in 50 states, 38% of whites smoked, 34% of Hispanics smoked and 19% of blacks smoked. Overall, 34.8% of the teens smoked, up from 27% in 1991 and 30% in 1993. Only about 40% bought the cigarettes in a store or from a vending machine. The rest borrowed cigarettes, stole them or asked someone else to buy them. Seventy-seven percent who bought them in the past 30 days were never asked to show proof of age.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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