Cigarette and Tobacco Consumption: Have Anti-Smoking Policies Made a Difference?

Peter Bardsley and N. Olekans

No 615, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: The consumption of cigarette and tobacco products in Australia is modelled using the rational addiction theory of Becker and Murphy. The model incorporates information on advertising by cigarette and tobacco producers and by anti-smoking organisations, measures of anti-smoking policies such as advertising prohibitions and workplace bans, and demographic factors. Our result show that the Becker-Murphy model works well.

Keywords: TOBACCO; GOVERNMENT POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 1998
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