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 …

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We …

, is discussed. The issues include: how represent addiction, how handle unobserved expectations and changing plans, how … testing the 'rational addiction' hypothesis, by using linear, single-equation autoregressive models, as suggested by Becker …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective wellbeing by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction …

Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is … also responsible for enormous public health and economic costs, as smoking related health expenditures in Indonesia amount … targeting the tobacco farming and cigarette industries face a dilemma of public health versus rural livelihoods. This policy …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to … design campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls. …

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. …