nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We …

, together with support from the medical literature, provide evidence that bulimia should be considered an addiction. Our …

to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and have a close proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if at …

constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. The structural model …

This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different out-comes using county and time variation over … the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces … decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very small and not statistically significant. Well-being is also affected …

of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction … impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life …