Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics
| Range | Mean | Std. Dev. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigarette sales volume (Carton) | (76.2, 2549.3) | 732.3 | 297.4 |
| Cigarette sales value (CAN$) | (8314, 284,347) | 84,892 | 34,033 |
| Cigarette price | (80.2, 136.1) | 116.4 | 9.1 |
| JUUL city entry (0/1) | (0, 1) | 0.356 | 0.479 |
| JUUL market share (0–1) | (0, 0.384) | 0.00733 | 0.0178 |
| Temperature (C) | (− 25.6, 25.1) | 6.53 | 10.5 |
| CPI | (121.6, 144.1) | 134.9 | 5.5 |
| Unemployment rate (%) | (3, 10) | 6.1 | 1.4 |
| Gasoline price (cents per liter) | (87.6, 169) | 121.3 | 19.5 |
Data are based on the balanced panel for regressions in Table 3. A total of 19,296 (603 stores × 32 months) data points were used. We used log-transformed measures for cigarette sales as the outcomes in the regressions. For CPI, unemployment rate and gasoline price, we used metropolitan-level demographics for stores in metropolitan areas (urban) and province-level data if metropolitan-level demographics were not available