discourage alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. One striking finding is that a policy to raise the Federal excise tax on beer in …Health taxes on alcohol and cigarettes imposed by the Federal government of the United States have been very stable … of which are alcohol-related, by about 15 percent, saving more than 1,000 lives per year. A second is that over 800 …

discourage alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. One striking finding is that a policy to raise the Federal excise tax on beer in …Health taxes on alcohol and cigarettes imposed by the Federal government of the United States have been very stable … of which are alcohol-related, by about 15 percent, saving more than 1,000 lives per year. A second is that over 800 …

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …