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The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation

Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes

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Sloan, FA; Smith, VK; Taylor, DH
December 13, 2022

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.

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December 13, 2022

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Sloan, F. A., Smith, V. K., & Taylor, D. H. (2022). Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes. In The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation (pp. 137–145). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301614.00017
Sloan, F. A., V. K. Smith, and D. H. Taylor. “Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes.” In The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation, 137–45, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301614.00017.
Sloan FA, Smith VK, Taylor DH. Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes. In: The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation. 2022. p. 137–45.
Sloan, F. A., et al. “Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes.” The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation, 2022, pp. 137–45. Scopus, doi:10.4337/9781035301614.00017.
Sloan FA, Smith VK, Taylor DH. Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes. The Economics of Environmental Risk: Information, Perception and Valuation. 2022. p. 137–145.

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December 13, 2022

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