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This paper is the first econometric study to examine the determinants of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) demand … employed to assess the impact of NRT prices, cigarette prices, and other determinants on NRT demand. The estimates indicate …-capita sales of NRT products. The average own-price elasticity of demand for Nicoderm CQ, Nicorette, and Nicotrol is -1.4, -1 …
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Aim: To carry out a systematic review of studies that have conducted economic evaluations on smoking relapse prevention … economic evaluation of smoking relapse prevention needed to have been undertaken, modelling studies were permitted. Two … evaluation of smoking relapse prevention interventions have been conducted and further studies are required in this area. Future …
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, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior - eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking - in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …
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women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …
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Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …), which introduced a WBS (in addition to a smoking ban on public places), and adopting a difference-in-differences (DiD … the ban in public places), we document three sets of findings. First, unlike previous studies (focusing on smoking bans in …
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its...
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