We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the … the effects of smoking are based on observed relations between cohort smoking patterns and cohort death rates from lung …

mortality costs to smokers indicates a personal mortality cost on the order of $200 per pack for men and $100 for women using a …

conditions as hypertension in England. This is done by estimating the parameters of a structural model on smoking, hypertension … diagnosis and mortality. In order to deal with selection on screening I employ a feature of the English Longitudinal Study of …. Selection into smoking due to live expectancy or health is addressed by employing unobserved heterogeneity and subjective …

mortality, an impact that increases dramatically with age. The income ratio combined with smoking, obesity, and education …, smoking, and obesity. Here we apply an alternative approach to understand cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rates, which are … growth, smoking, obesity and education to explain variation in CVD death rates in 2010-2011. Our proxy for unbalanced …

trade off between current utility derived from smoking and a mortality risk increasing with age. Thus, individuals with a … on mortality, morbidity and smoking to empirically evaluate the ability of the rational addiction model with endogenous … mortality to explain heterogeneity in smoking behaviour among adults. We find that heterogeneity in potential life expectancy …

In this study I analyze the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality. Reduced-form regressions of mortality … distribution, and unobserved health trends indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in smoking … related mortality. Evidence on the complementary relationship between alcohol and tobacco as it relates to health outcomes is …