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 …

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 …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …