After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking … reducing cigarette smoking. Estimates for samples of current and ever smokers indicate that price increases would lead to lower …

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 …

reducing teenage cigarette consumption if they credibly alter individuals' beliefs about future prices …

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 … estimates illustrate the importance of the intertemporal linkages in cigarette demand implied by rational addictive behavior …

manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on … three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time …

Previous studies estimate the average effect of cigarette price on body mass index (BMI), with recent research showing …-run impact of cigarette price on BMI by performing quantile regressions and stratifying the sample by race, education, age, and … sex. Cigarette price has a highly heterogeneous negative effect that is more than three times as strong at high BMI levels …

We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with … of a cigarette package. These smokers first ranked the two packages solely on the basis of their warnings. Only when the … of inquiry into the question of rational addiction …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth … smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after … controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant …

pregnancy fixed effects models. We show that e-cigarette taxes increase pre-pregnancy smoking, increase prenatal smoking, and …We use the universe of birth records in the United States from 2013 to 2018 to examine the effect of e-cigarette tax … rates on pre-pregnancy smoking and prenatal smoking. We study these questions using two-way fixed effects models and …