, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior - eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking - in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …, calibrate the model with U.S. data, and apply it in order to investigate the life cycle patterns of smoking and quitting smoking …

motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …, calibrate the model with U.S. data, and apply it in order to investigate the life cycle patterns of smoking and quitting smoking …

application we estimate the demand for smoking in the US from 1970 to 2016, and we show that it is consistent with the rational …