Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK's Royal College of … designed to make tobacco products less desirable. More recently, the availability of alternative products, most notably e … tobacco regulations, there remains substantial debate regarding their effectiveness, and ultimately, their impact on economic …

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …

Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

demonstrate the importance of accounting for substitution and evasion responses in the design of stricter tobacco regulations …

Poverty and altered planning horizons brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic can change individual discount rates …