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The Health Economics of Cigarette Consumption
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This article is published in Journal of Human Resources.The article was published on 1968-01-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consumption (economics) & Health economics.read more
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The economic costs of the health effects of smoking, 1984
TL;DR: This original prevalence-based analysis of attributable risks indicates a staggering $54 billion cost to the nation from cigarette smoking.
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Price Elasticity of the Demand for Cigarettes in the United States
Herbert L. Lyon,Julian L. Simon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-experimental approach was used to estimate the retail price elasticity of demand for cigarettes, which was shown to be (−0.511) free of extraneous and irrelevant systematic influences that afflict time series and cross-section methods.
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A Bibliographic Survey of Health Economics Reading Materials in American and Canadian Universities
TL;DR: The general agreement among instructors manifests that the prerequisite for a student to enrol in Health Economics Course is to have a good knowledge of economics.
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Cytonuclear discordance, reticulation and cryptic diversity in one of North America's most common frogs.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the antiquity of common ancestors was not as important as the maintenance of allopatry in the divergence in P. crucifer genetic lineages and the understanding of the early stages of speciation is expanded.
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Cigarette smoking: medical costs vs tax receipts.
W. F. Forbes,M. E. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: Estimates of the economic costs of cigarette smoking in the United States vary widely, 1-5 partly because no two studies appear to have taken the same items into account, and partly because of the many difficulties inherent in arriving at such estimates.