jointly affect body weight and addiction to smoking. Focusing on direct and cross-price effects, we compare tobacco taxes and …The debate on tobacco and fat taxes often treats smoking and eating as independent behaviors. However, the available … evidence shows that they are interdependent, which implies that policies against smoking or obesity may have larger scope than …

This paper models the decision to quit smoking like an investment decision where the quitter incurs a sunk withdrawal … quit open as they learn more about the damage that smoking will have on their future utility. Policies which reduce a … smoker’s uncertainty about the damage that smoking with have on their future utility is likely to make them quit earlier. …

This paper models the decision to quit smoking like an investment decision where the quitter incurs a sunk withdrawal … quit open as they learn more about the damage that smoking will have on their future utility. Policies which reduce a … smoker’s uncertainty about the damage that smoking with have on their future utility is likely to make them quit earlier. …