designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their cigarettes. Our estimates suggest that tax increases reduce youth … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …

The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …

legal smoking age affected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced indoor … public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in … exert a negative influence over decisions to start smoking, but their effect on quitting smoking is less clearcut. …

This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the …, health knowledge and marital status to be most important with very little role for advertising bans. …

By combining our broad panel survey of Japanese adults from 2005 to 2008 and actual cigarette tax data, we investigate … how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … discounting and the sign effect. Cigarette consumption displays significantly positive correlations with discount rates and the …

Die massiven Gesundheitsschäden, die Rauchen verursacht, sind allseits bekannt. Die Gründe, warum Menschen zu Rauchern … sowie früher mit dem Rauchen anzufangen als solche aus sogenannten traditionellen Familien. Auch die Intensität des … Tabakkonsums hängt von der Familienform ab - Personen, die in Alleinerzieher-Haushalten aufwachsen, rauchen im Durchschnitt mehr …

years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …