discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …

cigarette and e-cigarette use and sales. We find sizable reductions in e-cigarette and cigarette use for 12th graders. T21 also … reduced cigarette sales by 12.4% and e-cigarette sales by 69.3% in counties with the highest percent quartile of individuals …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. -- Obesity ; longitudinal data ; mortality ; smoking …

county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the … unemployment rate increases their mortality hazard by 6%. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …