relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …

prominent role in legislative debates about using taxation as a principal tool to discourage smoking. In addition to informing …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

features of other, more complex models of addiction and problems of self control. We apply the model to analyze cigarette … smoking. Our main results are that, under not implausible conditions, making cigarettes more addictive can reduce smoking and …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …