Dr. DeCicca's analysis is even more compelling when you look at our principal target, those kids who never smoked. He found that the effect of price on the probability of starting to smoke by grade 12 was essentially zero, zip, zero; that price did not influence them. Children were going to use tobacco products anyway because of peer pressure and status. It had no effect.
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