Publications by authors named "Damon Morris"
Article Synopsis
- - The UK implemented major changes to its alcohol tax structure in August 2023, taxing all alcohol based on ethanol content, with reduced rates for draught beers and ciders, sparking a study on its impacts.
- - Researchers used the Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model to assess how these reforms would affect alcohol consumption, health outcomes, and government revenue over 5 to 20 years.
- - The reforms are projected to slightly reduce alcohol consumption and prevent thousands of deaths and hospital admissions, but hypothetical scenarios suggest that further changes, like removing draught relief, could marginally improve health outcomes.
Background: The value that might be added to local economies each year through the money that people who smoke tobacco would save if everyone quit smoking is called the 'smoke-free dividend'. This study aimed to estimate the value of the smoke-free dividend across local areas in England, and how it relates to the average income in those areas.
Methods: The study was a cross-sectional descriptive analysis of tobacco expenditure from the Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) matched to income and smoking prevalence data for English local authorities.
Introduction: Evidence shows that price is an important policy lever in reducing consumption of alcohol and tobacco. However, there is little evidence of the cross-price effect between alcohol and tobacco.
Methods: This paper uses an econometric model which estimates participation and consumption elasticities, on data from the UK Living Costs and Food Survey 2006-2017 and extends the literature by, for the first time, estimating joint price elasticities for disaggregated alcohol and tobacco products.