The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: that smoking increases health care … costs, and that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity. Some researchers have … hypothesized that these two facts, in combination, allow the inference that restricting smoking will lower health care costs. For a …

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …

were analyzed, five demographic variables were related to rates of earning and smoking cigarettes in the lab: 1) males … smoking were observed in individuals with high Fagerström smoke more than heavy drinkers; and 5) unemployed subjects smoked …. Finally, we discuss the ability of behavioral- economic laboratory experiments to model cigarette smoking in the natural …

-inconsistent smokers better off. Health economists have used this result to argue in favor of cigarette taxes that restrain smoking … benefit a smoker at every point in life. Smokers could be allowed to purchase smoking licenses' when they start to smoke, and …

inconsistent' about decisions such as smoking, having a higher discount rate between this period and the next than between future … implications for government policy towards smoking. Unlike the traditional model, our alternative implies that there is a role for …

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 … due to smoking, the value of statistical life by age and gender, and information on the number of packs smoked over the …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal … and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an instrument, we find that individuals whose spouses smoke are 40 percent … smoking bans and individual income becomes stronger at higher levels of aggregation. This social multiplier could explain the …

substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both … smoking behavior and low birth weight. We use a variety of empirical techniques including fixed effects and a matching … estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …