Do health changes affect smoking? Evidence from British panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; Étilé, Fabrice

doi:10.1016/s0167-6296(01)00140-0

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“…In particular, when looking at the distribution of the number of cigarettes smoked daily S i (see Figure 1) we observe that multiples of five are more likely to occur. This is a common phenomenon found in studies of cigarette consumption (see, for instance, Clark and Etile´, 2002, who use British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data).…”

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Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK

Bratti

Miranda

2010

Health Economics

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This paper investigates whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the intensity of consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, it focuses on current smoking intensity of the British individuals sampled in the 29-year follow-up survey of the 1970 British Cohort Study. We estimate endogenous dummy ordinal response models for cigarette consumption and show that HE is endogenous with respect to smoking intensity and that even when endogeneity is accounted for, HE is found to have a strong negative effect on smoking intensity. Moreover, pecuniary channels, such as occupation and income, mediate only a minor part of the effect of HE. Our results are robust to modelling individual self-selection into current smoking participation (at age 29) and to estimating a dynamic model in which past smoking levels affect current smoking levels.

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Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK

Bratti

Miranda

2010

Health Economics

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“…What is unclear is whether this same strong effect occurs for other diseases and whether these cessation differences persist over a longer horizon. The second study considers the effect of new information about health via heart and lung check-ups, worsening or improved self-assessed health status, and generally finds that worsening health leads to reduced smoking and cessation one year later (Clark & Etile, 2002).…”

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Health Events and the Smoking Cessation of Middle Aged Americans

Falba

2005

J Behav Med

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This study investigates the effect of serious health events including new diagnoses of heart attacks, strokes, cancers, chronic lung disease, chronic heart failure, diabetes, and heart disease on future smoking status up to six years post event. Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Americans aged 51-61 in 1991, followed every 2 years from 1992 to 1998. Smoking status is evaluated at each of three followups, (1994, 1996, and 1998) as a function of health events between each of the four waves.Acute and chronic health events are associated with much lower likelihood of smoking both in the wave immediately following the event and up to six years later. However, future events do not retrospectively predict past cessation. In sum, serious health events have substantial impacts on cessation rates of older smokers. Notably, these effects persist for as much as six years after a health event.

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“…15 A seven point measure of life general life satisfaction is only available from 1996 to 2000 and 2002 to 2008, and so misses a large period during which real-terms cigarette excise taxes were rising rapidly (see Figure 1). 16 This follows Ai and Norton (2003) who warn of the diculty of interpreting interaction terms in non-linear models. However, results using probit methods are qualitatively similar and are available on request.…”

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Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence from Britain.

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Levell

2013

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Anti-smoking policies can in theory make smokers better o, by helping smokers with time-inconsistent preferences commit to giving up or reducing the amount they smoke. We use almost 20 years of British individual-level panel data to explore the impact on self-reported psychological well-being of two policy interventions: large real-terms increases in tobacco excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places.We use a dierence-in-dierences approach to compare the eects on well-being for smokers and nonsmokers. Smoking behaviour is likely to be inuenced by policy interventions, leading to a selection problem if outcomes are compared across current smokers and non-smokers. We consider dierent ways of grouping individuals into`treatment'and`control' groups based on demographic characteristics and observed smoking histories. We nd fairly robust evidence that increases in tobacco taxes raise the relative well-being of likely smokers. Exploiting regional variation in the timing of the smoking ban across British regions, we also nd some evidence that it raised smoker well-being, though the eect is not robust to the measure of well-being. The economic signicance of the eects also appears to be quite modest. Our ndings therefore give cautious support to the view that such interventions are at least partly justiable because of the benets they have for smokers themselves.JEL: D03, D12, H23, H31

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Do health changes affect smoking? Evidence from British panel data

Cited by 61 publications

References 29 publications

Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK

Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK

Health Events and the Smoking Cessation of Middle Aged Americans

Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence from Britain.

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