After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking … reducing cigarette smoking. Estimates for samples of current and ever smokers indicate that price increases would lead to lower …

characterizing addictive consumption. Results obtained from these demand equations support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is …Cigarette demand equations, derived from the Becker-Murphy model of rational addictive behavior, are estimated …

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …

We use a framework suggested by a model of rational addiction to analyze empirically the demand for cigarettes. The … results provide support for the implications of a rational addiction model that cross price effects are negative (consumption … estimates illustrate the importance of the intertemporal linkages in cigarette demand implied by rational addictive behavior …

reducing teenage cigarette consumption if they credibly alter individuals' beliefs about future prices …

reciprocal causal effects of addiction and education. Variations in endowments and cigarette prices are sources of identification …We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school …. We show that education causally reduces smoking. A counterfactual experiment finds that in absence of cigarettes, college …

Requiring graphic warning labels (GWLs) on cigarette packaging has become a highly contentious unresolved legal battle …. The constitutionality depends, in part, on the likely impact of GWLs on smoking decisions, and whether they generate … knowledge as opposed to emotional reactions against smoking. Using an online discrete choice stated preference experiment we …

consumption and smoking participation (suggesting a complementarity in consumption), while higher cigarette prices tend to … 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 …

of cigarette use, little is known about their impacts on smoking cessation. This paper addresses the dynamics of smoking …While much is known about the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking participation and frequency … increase the probability of initial smoking cessation as well as subsequent cessation for those individuals who are unable to …