Becker-Murphy model of rational addiction and the Grossman model of health investment. We define an individual's lifetime … smoking consumption pattern and investments in health capital as simultaneous choices within a single optimisation problem … allowing for the presence of an addiction stock and investments in preventive medical care. The resulting system of first …

present a theoretical model of smoking that defines an individual’s life-cycle addiction and cigarette consumption in the …This paper evaluates the impact of smoking bans on smoking using a policy change introduced by the UK government. We … presence and in the absence of a public smoking ban. The model shows that the imposition of a public smoking ban should affect …

perception and rationality in addiction. One important result is that for both types past smokers perceive smoking consequences … particular, the analysis investigates individuals’ perception of smoking effects in the short and long-term and whether they … equations for survival expectation, subjective health and smoking. Endogeneity and unobservable heterogeneity are addressed …

,among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This practice is … is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to design …

follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to investigate the social gradient in cancer, considering both lifetime …

Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding smoking …' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle …

multivariate framework, we propose a recursive model for expected longevity, self-assessed health and smoking duration, where … health and smoking variables are potentially endogenous. Unobservable individual-speci¯c heterogeneity is considered by … in the population are identified, that differ in terms of unobservable frailty and rationality in addiction. We also find …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … Lifestyle Survey (HALS). The empirical analysis includes counterfactual simulations. The Gini coffcient for inequality in …

stable, providing a natural control group. We evaluate the impact of schooling on smoking, for the beneficiaries of the post … evidence that educational expansion contributed to a decline in smoking. Our results also suggest that tobacco control policies … have reinforced the schooling-smoking gradient. …