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The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and Its Regulation

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Michael Moore (University of Virginia and NBER)
James Hughes (Department of Economics, Bates College)
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The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: (1) that smoking increases health care costs and (2) that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity. Some researchers have hypothesized that these two facts, in combination, allow the inference that restricting smoking will lower health care costs. For various reasons, however, observed associations between smoking and health care use on the one hand, and regulations and smoking on the other, do not imply a causal effect of the restrictions on health care.This article extends the literature by examining whether cigarette tax increases lead to lower health care costs. Using data from the 1991 and 1993 National Health Interview Surveys, it fi

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Volume (Year): 4 (2001)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 1022-1022
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  1. Gabriel Picone & Frank Sloan, 2001. "How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly," Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 4(1), pages 1021-1021. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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