impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being 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 …

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking … reducing cigarette smoking. Estimates for samples of current and ever smokers indicate that price increases would lead to lower …