model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation …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 …

U.S. state and local governments are increasingly restricting smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally … representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes in mortality and hospitalization … rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace …

This article estimates the mortality cost of smoking based on the first labor market estimates of the value of … statistical life by smoking status. Using these values in conjunction with the increase in the mortality risk over the life cycle … life cycle, produces an estimate of the private mortality cost of smoking of $222 per pack for men and $94 per pack for …

completion and the two leading preventable causes of death -- smoking and obesity. We focus on three issues that have received a … differ from other high school graduates in their smoking and obesity behaviors. Second, we explore the extent to which the … cognitive ability. Third, we estimate instrumental variables (IV) models of the impact of schooling on smoking and obesity …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …. Reduced form regressions of mortality rates on tax data for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, and … unobserved persistence, indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in mortality. A 10% increase in …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the … the effects of smoking are based on observed relations between cohort smoking patterns and cohort death rates from lung …

with steeper wage profiles. To test this hypothesis we use smoking as an instrument for time preference. Panel data from … the NLSY (1979-94) are ideal for our purposes since it contains information on smoking behavior in addition to detailed … undergraduates at Barnard and Columbia College show that dance majors have the highest smoking rate …

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