The Economics of Smoking

The Economics of Smoking by Robert D. Tollison, Richard E. Wagner.

Cigarettes are under political attack at all_levels of government in the United States. From Washington, D. C. to state capitals to local govern­ ments, proposals abound to increase the cigarette excise tax, to impose smoking bans, to prevent cigarette advertising, to restrict the sale of cigarettes...

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Main Authors: Tollison, Robert D. (Author), Wagner, Richard E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992.
Edition:1st ed. 1992.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Public finance.
Economic policy.
Political science.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Tobacco Warfare In America: An Overview
  • A Battlefield Tour
  • American Principles, Public Policy, and Tobacco Warfare
  • Organization of this Book
  • 2. Welfare Economics, Public Policy, And Smoking
  • Smoking, the Market Process, and a Free Society
  • Taxation and Regulation in a Market Economy
  • Welfare Economics and Tobacco Policy
  • Tobacco Taxation as Corrective Taxation
  • Tobacco Taxation: An Overview
  • 3. The Taxation And Regulation of Smoking: Principle vs. Expediency
  • Realistic Politics and Tobacco Policy
  • Knowledge and the Improbability of Corrective Taxation
  • Political Incentive and Actual Tobacco Taxation
  • Rationale, Reality, and Tobacco Regulation
  • Tobacco Policy in Constitutional Perspective
  • 4. Smoking And The Economic Cost Of Lost Production
  • Smoking and Health: The Method of “Attributable Risk”
  • How Accurate are Measures of Attributable Risk?
  • Economic Measurement of Indirect Costs
  • Joint Costs and Improper Cost Attribution
  • Who Loses Lost Production: Smokers or Nonsmokers?
  • What about the Benefits of Smoking?
  • 5. Markets, Insurance, And The Medical Costs Of Smokers
  • Attribution of “Medical Costs” to Smoking
  • Medical Costs, Personal Responsibility, and Insurance
  • Life Insurance and Nonsmoker Discounts
  • Health Insurance and Smoker-Nonsmoker Parity
  • Smoking and Fire Costs
  • Moral Hazard and Insurance Costs
  • 6. Medicare, Medicaid, And The Social Cost Of Smoking
  • Smokers and the Cost of Medicare
  • Transfers and Social Costs: A Clarification
  • Proposals for Earmarked Cigarette Taxes
  • Principle, Expediency, and Wealth Transfers
  • 7. Smoking, Business Costs, And Social Cost
  • Smoking and the Efficiency of Team Production
  • Smoking and Workplace Efficiency
  • Workplace Costs: A Further Consideration
  • Smoking and Economic Productivity: A Conceptual Framework
  • Smoking and Productivity: Discussion of the Data
  • 8. ETS And Governmental Protection Of Consumers And Workers
  • The Economics of Clean Indoor Air Acts
  • The Coase Theorem, Ownership Rights, and Markets
  • An Alternative Explanation
  • Tobacco and “Public Health”
  • 9. Advertising, “Addiction,” And The Denial Of True Choice
  • Separating Advertising Myth from Advertising Reality
  • Impact of Cigarette Advertising on Smoking by Youth
  • Cigarette Advertising is a Firm-Specific Investment
  • International Evidence: Cigarette Advertising Bans do not Work
  • The Constitution and the Protection of Commercial Speech
  • Advertising and Addiction
  • The New Economics of Addiction
  • Consumer Sovereignty or Health Fascism?
  • 10. Self Interest, Public Interest, And Legislation
  • Corrective Cigarette Taxation: An Analytical Unicorn
  • An Economic Approach to Legislation and Regulation
  • Democratic Politics and Tax Policy
  • Rent Seeking, Tax Resistance, and Social Waste
  • The Social Cost of Tobacco Taxation: A Recalculation
  • Economic Principles and the Anti-Cancer Bureaucracy
  • Tobacco Taxation and Regulation: A Realistic Approach
  • 11. Interest Groups And The Public’s Health
  • Overview
  • Market Processes and Personal Health
  • Is Health Research a Public Good?
  • Public Health and the Collective Interests of Physicians
  • Self Interest in Public Interest Organizations
  • 12. Principle And Expediency In Public Policy
  • Principles of Constitutional Political Economy
  • The Self-Ownership Foundations of a Democratic Polity
  • Considerations from the Economic Theory of Legislation
  • Implications for Public Policy Toward Tobacco
  • Implications for Public Policy More Broadly Considered
  • References.

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