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 …

motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …, calibrate the model with U.S. data, and apply it in order to investigate the life cycle patterns of smoking and quitting smoking …

does not take health conditions (or smoking status) into account in its annuity pricing. We find, contrary to the theory …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

U.S. state and local governments are increasingly restricting smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally … representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes in mortality and hospitalization … rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace …

completion and the two leading preventable causes of death %u2013 smoking and obesity. We focus on three issues that have … recipients differ from other high school graduates in their smoking and obesity behaviors. Second, we explore the extent to which … measures and cognitive ability. Third, we estimate instrumental variables (IV) models of the impact of schooling on smoking and …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …. Reduced form regressions of mortality rates on tax data for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, and … unobserved persistence, indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in mortality. A 10% increase in …