cost-benefit analysis accompanying such policies value foregone consumer surplus associated with regulation …-induced reductions in smoking? In a model with rational and fully informed consumers, this question is straightforward. There is …-benefit analyses. We discuss the evidence on whether consumers are fully informed about the risks of smoking and whether their choices …

About three-quarters of secondary schools are reluctant to vigorously enforce smoking bans due to various social … pressures; ten percent of these schools do not have bans at all. Empirically, school-based smoking regulations appear, at best …, ineffective at reducing teenage smoking and, more likely, may actually increase participation. Only schools which vigorously …

The U.S. 2009 Tobacco Control Act opened the door for new anti-smoking policies by giving the Food and Drug … cigarette consumption improves social welfare. In sharp contrast, a paternalistic regulation might either improve or worsen …

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 …

The apogee of anti-smoking legislation in North America was reached early in the last century. In 1903, the Canadian … Progressive Movement. Cigarette prohibition was special interest regulation, though not of the usual narrow neoclassical genre; it … opponents of cigarette regulation were cigarette smokers and the more organized cigarette lobby. An active Progressive Movement …

, 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 …

Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of … Physicians' and the U.S. Surgeon General's reports in the 1960s. Such regulation, which has intensified in the past two decades …, includes cigarette taxation, place-based smoking bans in areas ranging from bars and restaurants to workplaces, and regulations …

observed changes in cigarette smoking, binge alcohol drinking, and marijuana use by high school seniors. For example, the 70 … all of the 12 percentage point reduction in the cigarette smoking participation rate since that year. The 7 percent …

-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 …