Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58679 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6206
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for individuals in good non-smoking health.
Subjects: 
life expectancy
tobacco
confounding
JEL: 
I12
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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