In summary, the current study is the first to utilize a large, longitudinal, representative U.S. sample to examine the secondary public health benefits of cigarette taxation on alcohol consumption. Together with recent findings that smoke-free legislation is associated with reductions in alcohol consumption (Kasza et al.,2012; McKee et al., 2009) and alcohol use disorders (Young-Wolff et al., 2013), our results may have significant clinical and policy implications, and suggest that the public health benefits of tobacco-related policies may extend to drinking behaviors. Our findings suggest that statewide increases in cigarette taxes may offer a broad approach to prevent alcohol-related morbidity and mortality among those at greatest risk (e.g., men, hazardous drinkers, young adult smokers). These results also underscore the potential importance of investigating the spillover influence of substance-related policies on a range of undesirable outcomes that we do not consider in this paper. For example, this line of research could be extended to examine whether smoke-free bar policies are associated with lower levels of sexual assault and drunk driving among young adults. Future research should also investigate whether gender interacts
