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Tobacco use, which is rising quickly in developing countries, kills 5.4 million people a year worldwide. This paper explores the impacts of mobile phone ownership on tobacco consumption. Indeed, mobile phone ownership could affect tobacco consumption because individuals might pay for their...
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Using spatially coded data on mobile phone coverage and panel data from 2100 households in 135 communities of the Philippines, we estimate the impact of mobile phone ownership on tobacco consumption. Purchasing a mobile phone leads to a 17.1% decrease in tobacco consumption per adult over the...
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drivers of nicotine use, coupled with a reduction in time spent in areas where smoking is banned, may have driven increased … consumption. But the pandemic also disrupted social interactions that may promote smoking; reduction in environmental triggers and … features of the pandemic require investigation: Misinformation surrounding the unfounded theory that smoking might have a …
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, consumer income per capita, the price of goods such as food and health care, and the strengthening of anti-smoking laws are … demand is also sensitive to consumer income and the strengthening of anti-smoking laws. In contrast, changes in the prices of …
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cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to quantify biases that affect consumers of addictive goods: present-biased preferences, naïve beliefs regarding present bias, and projection-biased beliefs over future abstinence. These biases reflect departures from the neoclassical benchmark needed to...
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The development of nicotine replacement therapies and e-cigarettes emphasize and highlight that, in tobacco demand, nicotine is one of, if not, the primary object people want. This chapter presents a simple model of utility maximization that focuses specifically on nicotine as the object of...
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