manufacturers of tobacco products; it then highlights the prevalence of tobacco use and addiction in Kenya; the implications of … tobacco addiction for public health; the legal and policy interventions of tobacco addiction in Kenya and their rationale; and … uphold and foster high ethical standards, to render the said interventions effective, thus reducing addiction, morbidity and …

levels of addiction. We find no impacts on initiation, which could be partly explained by the fact that smoking initiation …Current evidence is still mixed regarding the effectiveness of smoking bans for reducing firsthand smoking. We provide … novel insights about their effects on young adults' smoking prevalence, initiation and cessation. We also highlight the …

We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school … reciprocal causal effects of addiction and education. Variations in endowments and cigarette prices are sources of identification …. We show that education causally reduces smoking. A counterfactual experiment finds that in absence of cigarettes, college …

The economics of addiction -- Smoking can kill you -- Let's drink to your health -- All you can eat -- We know what …

longitudinal data from RLMS, estimating a quasi-hyperbolic discounting rational addiction model for young and adult smokers …