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Above average temperatures during late winter and early spring are associated with increased West Nile Virus activity in the summer months. (Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)
NORTHBROOK, IL With warmer temperatures here, the threat of the West Nile Virus being transmitted to humans and animals from mosquitoes increases. The Northfield-based North Shore Mosquito Abatement District has resumed testing for 2021 in the local municipalities, including Northbrook.
During the week of May 22 through May 28, NSMAD tested five batches of mosquitoes in Northbrook for WNV and each came back negative. In all, 66 batches across Northbrook, Glenview/Golf, Evanston, Glencoe, Kenilworth, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette and Winnetka, with all testing negative.
In this appendix we motivate and discuss the empirical models and results used to produce the casual and commercial smuggling estimates presented in the main text under A New Estimate of Interstate Cigarette Smuggling Rates (see Page 12). The results of this study build upon the existing literature, which provides considerable support for the presence of substantial tax-induced smuggling, both casual and commercial. For instance, Lovenheim (2007) estimates that 13 percent to 25 percent of U.S. consumers engage in casual smuggling while Thursby and Thursby (2000) find that commercial smuggling accounted for nearly 7.3 percent of total sales in the United States in 1990.
Such estimates have usually been generated from representative consumer demand models in which variables such as price, tourism, income, race and religious affiliations, among other demographic variables, are used to characterize demand. The researchers then include tax or price differentials, American Indian and m