Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) Spending and Tobacco Control Efforts

We investigate whether the distributions to the states from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) in 1998 is associated with stronger tobacco control efforts. We use state level data from 50 states and the District of Columbia from four time periods post MSA (1999, 2002, 2004, and 2006) for the analysis. Using fixed effect regression models, we estimate the relationship between MSA disbursements and a new aggregate measure of strength of state tobacco control known as the Strength of Tobacco Control (SoTC) Index. Results show an increase of $1 in the annual per capita MSA disbursement to a state is associated with a decrease of −0.316 in the SoTC mean value, indicating higher MSA payments were associated with weaker tobacco control measures within states. In order to achieve the initial objectives of the MSA payments, policy makers should focus on utilizing MSA payments strictly on tobacco control activities across states.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2014-12-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0114706PMID 25506827PMCID 4266515
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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