This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette … taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide … simple binary choice model based on a random utility model to examine the effects of smoking control policies on individual …

This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette … taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide … simple binary choice model based on a random utility model to examine the effects of smoking control policies on individual …

The extensive literature on smoking behaviour has focused on numerous aspects such as the factors that influence the … decision to start smoking and, for smokers, what factors influence consumption and decisions to quit. This study focuses on the …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government's revenue …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … a future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government … tax per cigarette than the present actual level. -- Smoking ; cigarette tax ; time preference ; discount rate ; hyperbolic …