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This paper provides estimates of the economic welfare effects of tobacco taxation in India, S.Africa, S.Korea, Japan … and the European Union. It argues that past studies of the cost-benefits of smoking are flawed as they fail to net out … Paretoirrelevant pecuniary externalities. It estimates tobacco demand for both the myopic and rational addiction models and finds the …
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Abstract Some policy makers justify cigarette taxes by arguing that they actually make smokers better off. This argument has been hard to evaluate because behavioral data, such as that showing reduced cigarette consumption following a tax hike, cannot resolve the issue of whether smokers are...
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A number of studies have shown that many factors influence the development of the tobacco companies. This article … analyzes the market demand of the Chinese tobacco and efficiency evaluation about Yantai Tobacco Company in order to improve … tobacco price. In the structural equation model, the brand image has a significant impact on the model, based on which we make …
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of advertising bans. Due to a decline in smoking prevalence, especially among males, there was a change in the political …
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The new Sustainable Development Goals call for quality education for all. This study aims to examine the role of mobile educational technology, through the School in a Box intervention, particularly in supporting teachers skills in achieving quality education, in the context of a public primary...
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of various personal characteristics, including obesity, smoking cessation, happiness, and loneliness. Those papers also …
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Abstract This paper empirically investigates biased beliefs about the risks of smoking. First, it confirms the …
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marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … two years. These results on the whole imply that marriage internalizes the negative externalities of smoking and thus … leads smokers to reduce smoking.  …
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smoking behavior of women. Differential increases in federal EITC benefits by family size in the mid-1990s allow for a … comparison of smoking status changes between mothers with one and more than one child. We exploit these changes in a difference … smoking was concentrated among those with some college.  …
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smoking. Our main results are that, under not implausible conditions, making cigarettes more addictive can reduce smoking and …
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