DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald; Mathios, Alan; Shin, … - In: Health Economics 17 (2008) 6, pp. 733-749
In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro-data on youth smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment,...