Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … economic substitution between cigarettes and ENDS for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent … cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … economic substitution between cigarettes and ENDS for youth. These substitution effects are particularly large for frequent … cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

estimating the effects of cigarette taxes on youth smoking with data from the 1992-1996 Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program, 1991 … General Social Survey, 1994 Youth Smoking Survey, 1996-1997 and 1998-1999 National population Health Surveys, and the 1999 … analysis of lower taxes on a panel of 591 youths from the Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program, who did not smoke in 1993, but …

sorting in spouses’ BMI, in their weight, and in their height. Within couples, gender-asymmetric trade-offs arise not only … fatter women and shorter men. A wife’s obesity (body size or weight) measures are negatively correlated with her husband …We analyze empirically the marriage-market aspects of body size, weight, and height in the United States using data …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race …

effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …-effectiveness of preventive obesity and smoking treatment and seems to be at odds with the "Easterlin Paradox" that emphasizes within …

A large literature has examined the healthcare consequences of obesity. A major barrier to careful study of these … consequences is reliance on self-reported measures of weight and height. Previous research has developed algorithms to adjust for … patterns from working age adults due to involuntary weight loss and changes in cognition, muscle mass, and bone density. We …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …