I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase - rather than decrease - total consumption when advertising … allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce equilibrium prices …-ante (i.e. without advertising) similar and advertising is of the 'price-increasing' type. The ban is the more likely to …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

determinants of the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and cocaine in Mexico. The contribution of this work is supported by … behaviors hypothesis. The results show that alcohol consumption responds on changes on consumer's income. The tobacco …

effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …

The amendment of the existing excise tax law on tobacco and alcoholic products is the only revenue measure that the …

empirical application for Norway with 55 commodity groups is presented. For beer, wine, spirits and tobacco, consumers can … partial revenue. The same results are valid for spirits. For beer and tobacco there is no revenue maximizing tax share. …

related to alcohol consumption, narcotics use and tobacco smoking over the seventeen years prior to the implementation of the … Swedish government's first strategy for alcohol, narcotics, doping and tobacco (ANDT) in 2011. We also sought to explain the …. Our two key research questions, for each of alcohol, narcotics and smoking were: 1) How have trends in a) consumption …

) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising … influences the set of products from which consumers choose to purchase. Multi-product firms choose prices and advertising in each … medium to maximize their profits. I apply the model to the US PC market, in which advertising expenditures are over $2 …

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …-smokers. While bans in public transportation or in schools decrease the exposure of non smokers, bans in recreational public places …