appear to have contributed significantly to the reduction of smoking in Japan. While the increased popularity of HTPs … proposals to increase HTP taxes. This study uses a large discrete choice experiment to examine the decision-making processes of …

-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 …

While the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (ST) is low relative to smoking, the distribution of ST use is highly skewed …

smoking cessation products, based on a new dataset of patents on such products from 1951-2004. We find that an increase in … cigarette tax levels and smoking bans had no discernible impact on the industry-wide rate of invention in smoking cessation …, the introduction of the nicotine gum and patch are estimated to have increased the rate of patenting activity in smoking …

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed under the competing hypotheses that smoking is not addictive or that … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking …

cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …

Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Because e-cigarettes do not involve the combustion of … tobacco, vaping offers the potential to prevent most of the health consequences of smoking. We study the impact of an … perceptions and vaping and smoking behavior; and national aggregate time-series sales data. We find that after the outbreak …

smoking cessation intervention program on cessation maintenance and lung function. Results indicate that the intervention was … less successful for participants with higher PGIs for smoking initiation and intensity. Given the increasing availability …