response to my peer to this "Indeed, raising taxes on tobacco and thereby increasing its price is one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use. Prices affect virtually all measures of cigarette use, including per-capita consumption, smoking rates, and the number of cigarettes smoked daily. These effects apply across a wide range of racial and socioeconomic groups (Schillo-Amato, 2019) For young people, the high price of cigarettes is a factor that will determine if they keep or even try to consume cigarettes because during these years economy is an important and determinant factor due to they are in school, so they do not work much, and they don't make too much money. The funds that they have access to have to be divided into too many parts to cover all the important expenses. We can mention how opportunity cost can be playing in here because if they are not spending money on cigarettes if they give up, they can be buying books, saving for tuition, or conference tickets, etc. and this is going to place them ahead in their career. Also, they will be facing trade-offs because they will be comparing the cost and benefits of smoking cigarettes