prominent role in legislative debates about using taxation as a principal tool to discourage smoking. In addition to informing …

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 …

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

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 …

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

In economic analyses of addictive behavior, the consumption of a certain good is termed to be an addiction if an …