nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction …

, together with support from the medical literature, provide evidence that bulimia should be considered an addiction. Our …

This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different out-comes using county and time variation over … the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces … decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very small and not statistically significant. Well-being is also affected …

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior – eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking – in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

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 …