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

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

The one-third rise in the teen smoking rate in the 1990s has led to considerable interest in understanding the … determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … of smoking participation, and find that smoking participation is not simply concentrated among the most disadvantaged …

amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by …