We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control …, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … about the right weight. The derived demand for cigarettes has important implications for tax policy. Under reasonable …

We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control …, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … about the right weight. The derived demand for cigarettes has important implications for tax policy. Under reasonable …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary … lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary … lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary … lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race …

effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …-effectiveness of preventive obesity and smoking treatment and seems to be at odds with the "Easterlin Paradox" that emphasizes within …

A large literature has examined the healthcare consequences of obesity. A major barrier to careful study of these … consequences is reliance on self-reported measures of weight and height. Previous research has developed algorithms to adjust for … patterns from working age adults due to involuntary weight loss and changes in cognition, muscle mass, and bone density. We …