Smoking, health knowledge, and anti-smoking campaigns: an empirical study in Taiwan.
This paper uses a measure of health knowledge of smoking hazards to investigate the determinants of health knowledge and its effect on smoking behavior. In our analysis, two equations are estimated: smoking participation and health knowledge. The simultaneity problem in estimating smoking behavior and health knowledge is also considered. Overall, the estimated results suggest that anti-smoking campaigns have a significantly positive effect on the public's health knowledge, and this health knowledge in turn, has a significantly negative effect on smoking participation. The health knowledge elasticities of smoking participation are -0.48 and -0.56 for all adults and adult males, respectively.
Hsieh
C R
CR
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yen
L L
LL
Liu
J T
JT
Lin
C J
CJ
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006076:Government; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018803:Models, Economic; D010067:Ownership; D011356:Product Labeling; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000191:economics; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology