A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …

We use a framework suggested by a model of rational addiction to analyze empirically the demand for cigarettes. The … results provide support for the implications of a rational addiction model that cross price effects are negative (consumption …

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed under the competing hypotheses that smoking is not addictive or that … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking …

characterizing addictive consumption. Results obtained from these demand equations support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is …

recoveries or offering rewards for private solutions to social problems that would otherwise encourage a growing addiction to law …