Smoking, health knowledge, and anti-smoking campaigns: an empirical study in Taiwan
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The three types of policies which countries have developed against smoking include increasing the excise taxes on cigarettes, imposing smoking regulations in public places or private work areas and providing public information and education on the hazards of smoking. A measure of health knowledge of smoking hazards is used to analyze the determinants of health knowledge and how it affects smoking behavior. Anti-smoking campaigns were found to have a major positive effect on public health knowledge and a negative effect on smoking participation.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 1996
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Smoking, health, risk, and perception
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A study on comparing the role of perceptions of persons who smoke early in life submitting themselves to lowered health state, as against a smoker, who is well aware of mortality consequences, is presented. While smokers in a lower state of health have high demands for health investments, and health-complementary activities later in life; smokers aware of mortality consequences, are smoke less and demand less medical care.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2005
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Don't give up on me baby: spousal correlation in smoking behaviour
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The relationship between a person's current smoking behavior and spouses' past smoking behavior and its effect on the health of couples in a marriage is analyzed
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2006
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