). The objective of this paper is to examine this possibility in the context of a utility-maximizing model of smoking that is … ingredient in smoking behaviour, this paper is the first to incorporate such knowledge into a utility-price based maximizing …

The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: that smoking increases health care … costs, and that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity. Some researchers have … hypothesized that these two facts, in combination, allow the inference that restricting smoking will lower health care costs. For a …

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …

The tobacco industry claims that increases in tobacco tax will not discourage people from smoking because smokers will …

The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: that smoking increases health care … costs, and that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity. Some researchers have … hypothesized that these two facts, in combination, allow the inference that restricting smoking will lower health care costs. For a …