Information, Addiction, and 'Bad Choices': Lessons from a Century of Cigarettes

Frank A. Sloan, V. Kerry Smith and Donald H. Taylor

Chapter 10 in The Economics of Environmental Risk, 2022, pp 137-145 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per capita cigarette demand changed before any information about health effects of smoking was widely distributed.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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