Information, addiction, and 'bad choices': Lessons from a century of cigarettes

Economics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-155

  Sloan, Frank A ^a   Smith, V Kerry ^b   Taylor Jr , Donald H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Information; Rational addiction; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036790185     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00134-9     Document Type: Article

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