Avery, Rosemary J.; Kenkel, Donald; Lillard, Dean; … - 2021
empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on … consumers that the advertisers observe, we can control for the potential endogeneity of advertising due to firms' targeting … decisions. We find that when smokers are exposed to more advertising, they are more likely to attempt to quit and are more …