After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed under the competing hypotheses that smoking is not addictive or that … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking …

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …

We use a framework suggested by a model of rational addiction to analyze empirically the demand for cigarettes. The … results provide support for the implications of a rational addiction model that cross price effects are negative (consumption …

characterizing addictive consumption. Results obtained from these demand equations support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is …

Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …

of the 2008 Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in increasing SA treatment admissions and promoting …