Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72350 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP02/05
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Standard probit analysis is applied to both starting and quitting. Tobacco taxes appear to exert a negative influence over decisions to start smoking, but their effect on quitting smoking is less clearcut.
Subjects: 
Probit
Ordered Probit
Smoking
JEL: 
I18
D12
C41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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