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The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption.

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Picone, GA; Sloan, F; Trogdon, JG
Published in: Health economics
October 2004

In the last few years, the price of cigarettes has increased considerably in the USA. In addition, a number of states have also imposed smoking bans. These increases in the cost and barriers to smoking have created a natural experiment to study relationships between smoking and drinking behaviors. In this study, we employ data from the first six waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to analyze the effects of smoking bans and cigarette prices on alcohol consumption. We also test if past cigarette and alcohol consumption affect current alcohol consumption as predicted by co-addiction models. We estimate dynamic panel models using GMM estimators. Our approach allows us to obtain consistent estimates irrespective of the number of time periods. The three main findings of this study are: (1) there is positive reinforcement effect of past cigarette consumption on current alcohol consumption, (2) smoking bans reduce alcohol consumption and (3) there is a positive effect of cigarette prices on alcohol consumption.

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Health economics

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EISSN

1099-1050

ISSN

1057-9230

Publication Date

October 2004

Volume

13

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1063 / 1080

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Smoking
  • Models, Econometric
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Health Policy & Services
  • Female
  • Data Collection
  • Behavior, Addictive
 

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Picone, G. A., Sloan, F., & Trogdon, J. G. (2004). The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption. Health Economics, 13(10), 1063–1080. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.930
Picone, Gabriel A., Frank Sloan, and Justin G. Trogdon. “The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption.Health Economics 13, no. 10 (October 2004): 1063–80. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.930.
Picone GA, Sloan F, Trogdon JG. The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption. Health economics. 2004 Oct;13(10):1063–80.
Picone, Gabriel A., et al. “The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption.Health Economics, vol. 13, no. 10, Oct. 2004, pp. 1063–80. Epmc, doi:10.1002/hec.930.
Picone GA, Sloan F, Trogdon JG. The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption. Health economics. 2004 Oct;13(10):1063–1080.
Journal cover image

Published In

Health economics

DOI

EISSN

1099-1050

ISSN

1057-9230

Publication Date

October 2004

Volume

13

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1063 / 1080

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Smoking
  • Models, Econometric
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Health Policy & Services
  • Female
  • Data Collection
  • Behavior, Addictive