Stockwell, Auld, Zhao, and Martin (2012) claim that minimum alcohol prices had a signi cant impact on total alcohol consumption in British Columbia, Canada. To show this they perform a regression with the log of total alcohol consumption as the dependent variable and the log of the average of...

Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities....

This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential...