This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette … taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide … simple binary choice model based on a random utility model to examine the effects of smoking control policies on individual …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … a future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government … tax per cigarette than the present actual level. -- Smoking ; cigarette tax ; time preference ; discount rate ; hyperbolic …

In this study, we examined the differences between smoking and drinking in regard to their associations with … probit models to jointly explore how smoking and drinking are related to a wide variety of socioeconomic factors. We found … that only educational attainment is consistently and negatively associated with both smoking and drinking for both genders …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government's revenue …