Cigarettes and addiction information: New evidence in support of the rational addiction model

Economics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-45

  Fenn, Aju J ^a   Antonovitz, Frances ^b   Schroeter, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette demand; D12; Health information; I10; Rational addiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035631375     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00398-6     Document Type: Article

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