Sociocultural Influences on Smoking and Drinking
in cigarette prices by quitting smoking rather than by reducing the number of cigarettes they smoked per day. Grossman and colleagues (1993) reported price elasticities of demand for cigarettes of –1.20 for 12- to 17-year-olds and –0.15 for people older than age 35, meaning
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