@article{d0ea4a034ccc40dc89cca122381e264f,
title = "Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes",
abstract = "This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per capita cigarette demand changed before any information about health effects of smoking was widely distributed.",
keywords = "Advertising, Information, Rational addiction, Smoking",
author = "Sloan, {Frank A.} and Smith, {V. Kerry} and Taylor, {Donald H.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported in part by a grant to Duke University (#034900) entitled, {\textquoteleft}Information, Risk Perceptions, and Smoking Behavior,{\textquoteright} from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Substance Abuse Research Program. The authors thank Blake Brown, Tom Capehart, Lee Craig, and Wally Thurman for assistance in developing the cigarette price variable and explaining the role of the tobacco support program and an anonymous referee for helpful comments on an earlier draft. ",
year = "2002",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00134-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "77",
pages = "147--155",
journal = "Economics Letters",
issn = "0165-1765",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}