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 …

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 …

Because of the high social cost of cigarette smoking, many countries impose advertising restrictions to reduce … cigarette consumption. Yet previous studies conclude that advertising constraints have been ineffective at reducing cigarette … smoking. This conclusion is incorrect because it ignores the fact that advertising restrictions have supply as well as demand …

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …