, which resulted in the airing of anti-smoking messages on radio and television from July 1, 1967 to January 1, 1971,and (3 …) the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970, which banned pro-smoking cigarette advertising on radio and television … corresponding adult price elasticities. The teenage smoking participation elasticity equals -1.2, and the quantity smoked elasticity …

financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years. Settlement payments received by states are strongly related to smoking …

deaths every year. Prenatal smoking and postnatal environmental smoke have been identified as strong risk factors for SIDS …. Given the link between smoking and SIDS, this paper examines the direct effects of cigarette prices, taxes and clean indoor … restrictions on smoking in restaurants and child care centers are also effective in reducing SIDS deaths …

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

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation …

-inconsistent smokers better off. Health economists have used this result to argue in favor of cigarette taxes that restrain smoking … benefit a smoker at every point in life. Smokers could be allowed to purchase smoking licenses' when they start to smoke, and …

inconsistent' about decisions such as smoking, having a higher discount rate between this period and the next than between future … implications for government policy towards smoking. Unlike the traditional model, our alternative implies that there is a role for …

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 …

were analyzed, five demographic variables were related to rates of earning and smoking cigarettes in the lab: 1) males … smoking were observed in individuals with high Fagerström smoke more than heavy drinkers; and 5) unemployed subjects smoked …. Finally, we discuss the ability of behavioral- economic laboratory experiments to model cigarette smoking in the natural …