Do Tobacco Taxes Influence Starting and Quitting Smoking? A Discrete Choice Approach Using Evidence from a Sample of Irish Women

Preliminary draft - This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Standard probit analysis is applied to both starting and quitting. Tobacco taxes appear to exert a negative influence over decisions to start smoking, but their effect on quitting smoking is less clearcut.

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Year of publication:	2002-02-17
Authors:	Madden, David
Institutions:	School of Economics, University College Dublin
Subject:	Probit \| Ordered Probit \| Smoking

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 200205 22 pages
Classification:	I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; C41 - Duration Analysis
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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