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 inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We …

presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … restricting smoking in workplaces or other public places appear to discourage both cigarette and snuff use, though less …

This study uses within-state variation in taxes over the 1989-1992 time period to test whether maternal smoking and … Detail files, generating a sample of roughly 10.5 million births. The results indicate that smoking participation declines … consumption conditional on smoking. Reduced-form models also indicate that higher excise taxes translate into higher birth weights …

inadequate risk decisions by smokers regarding their own welfare. Detailed calculations of the financial externalities of smoking …

discourage alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. One striking finding is that a policy to raise the Federal excise tax on beer in …