Rationally addicted to drinking and smoking?

Smoking , Drinking

A growing literature identiies a beneecial eeect of moderate and even heavy drinking on wages and a negative eeect of smoking on wages. An outstanding issue is whether these results obtain because of a causal eeect of substance use on wages or whether the observed correlations reeect the eeects of income on consumption or other en-dogeneity problems. This paper presents full information estimat...

Smoking, Drinking, and Income

In an effort to further understanding of the “alcohol/income puzzle” — the finding that moderate and perhaps even heavy drinking appears to cause increased income — this paper presents maximum simulated likelihood estimates of a system of limited dependent variables governing smoking and drinking patterns and income. With all else in the system held constant, moderate drinking leads to 10% grea...

Smoking, drinking, and polycythaemia.

The mean packed cell volume is higher in the smoking population than in non-smokers.'' Chronic hypoxaemia, from whatever cause, tends to cause a rise in the packed cell volume.4 The obvious temptation is to invoke hypoxaemia, resulting from lung disease induced by smoking, to explain the high values found in smokers-but is this apparently straightforward explanation correct? The increase in pac...

Drinking and passive smoking.

I read with great interest the special report, “The health risks of passive smoking” (Chest 1983; 84:90-5). The nonsmokers’ rights movements have little power in Japan at present. In many cases, Japanese smokers themselves should be chastised for their smoking habits. They smoke in public, on trains, and even in the office at work. The harmful effects of passive smoking on nonsmokers do not app...

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