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Cigarettes and Addiction Information: New Evidence in Support of the Rational Addiction Model

Aju Fenn, Frances A. Antonovitz and John Schroeter

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A 1979 U.S. Surgeon General's report provided the first conclusive public information of nicotine's addictive effects. We test the hypothesis that cigarette demand was of a "myopic" nature prior to 1979, but forward-looking, or "rational," thereafter.

Date: 2001-07-01
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Published in Economics Letters, July 2001, vol. 72 no. 1, pp. 39-45

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