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impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction …
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In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … longevity. I distinguish two types of addiction: perfect and common. Individuals with perfect addiction perfectly control their … addiction. Individuals with common addiction, though otherwise rational and forward looking, fail to fully understand how their …
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relates to risky behaviors like smoking, drinking, and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …
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relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …
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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 …
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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 …
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Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … employer preferences, neglecting the dynamic nature of human capital development and addiction. In this paper, we formulate a … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from …
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discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy … for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …
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