Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72399 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP02/06
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Applying a variety of parametric duration models, including a split population model, to a sample of Irish women, it finds mixed results regarding the effect of tobacco taxes. In general the coefficient on tobacco taxes is in the expected direction but in some cases statistical significance is low. The paper finds among other factors education, health knowledge and marital status to be most important with very little role for advertising bans.
Subjects: 
Duration
Split Population
Smoking
JEL: 
I18
D12
C41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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