, drinking, and smoking on weight. We apply a dynamic panel system GMM estimation model to longitudinal (1991-2006) data from …

Taxation of cigarettes and alcohol can raise revenue and reduce consumption of goods with negative external effects … of cross-price effects in cigarette and alcohol consumption. We use individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor … Surveillance System to investigate cigarette and alcohol consumption in the US, estimating both own and cross-price elasticities …

the key to meeting public health goals to reduce smoking. However, in many ways, smoking cessation products have been more … pharmaceutical market -- the market for smoking cessation products. Because of their proven effectiveness, these products could be … print advertisements. The archive includes all smoking cessation product advertisements that appeared in over 13,000 issues …

This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for … friends' health behaviors is identified by comparing similar individuals who have the same friendship opportunities because … so that the model is identified based on across grade differences in the clustering of health behaviors within specific …

without the use of any product. Thus, the public health returns to smoking cessation product advertisements exceed the private …To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an … empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on …

paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model … caloric intake (adjusted for activity level) and smoking, a set of reduced form equations for these outcomes is estimated …

This paper examines the influence of body weight, body image, and cigarette prices in determining adolescent smoking … initiation. Adolescents who desire to lose weight may initiate smoking as a method of appetite control. Such behavior may … undermine the goals of tobacco control policies that seek to prevent smoking initiation. Using a nationally representative panel …

Health College Alcohol Study (CAS). Our findings indicate that a higher level of state spending on tobacco control programs … quit smoking in the past year, as well as increases in the number of attempts to quit in the past year among smokers. We …

continuation and the choices of whether to smoke or drink. We demonstrate that in the United States as of the late 1990s, smoking … conveyed by smoking (of being off track in school), one that is especially powerful for high-aptitude students. To further … develop this view, we present estimates of the likelihood of smoking as a function of school commitment and other, more …

illness could affect the level of consumption of addictive goods and could affect the price elasticities of addictive goods …. Demand theory suggests that mental illness would affect consumption if mental illness affected marginal utility. In addition …. The empirical models allow for endogeneity between mental illness and addictive consumption since prior research suggests …