Addiction as a market failure: using rational addiction results to justify tobacco regulation.

Failure to treat tobacco use in mental health and addiction treatment settings: a form of harm reduction?

In mental health and addiction treatment settings, failure to treat tobacco dependence has been rationalized by some as a clinical approach to harm reduction. That is, tobacco use is viewed as a less harmful alternative to alcohol or illicit drug use and/or other self-harm behaviors. This paper examines the impact of providers' failure to treat tobacco use on patients' alcohol and illicit drug ...

The Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Addiction Tendency: The Mediating Roles of Social and Emotional Loneliness and Early Maladaptive Schemas

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive emotion and regulation addiction tendency with the mediating roles of loneliness and early maladaptive schemas among students. Method: The present study was descriptive-correlational and structural equations. The statistical population included all students in master degree in Islamic Azad University of Z...

A Dynamic Simultaneous-Equations Model for Cigarette Consumption in the Western States

This paper presents a rational addiction model, which integrates the addictive behavior of smokers toward cigarette consumption and the dynamic, profitmaximizing behavior of an oligopoly of cigarette producers. This model is tested on a panel data for eleven western states over the period of 1967-1990, using simultaneous estimation techniques. The results suggest the following conclusions: firs...

prediction of addiction potential based on intentional self regulation and positive youth development in high school students in Kermanshah city

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to predict addiction potential based on intentional self-regulation and positive youth development  in highschool students in Kermanshah. Method: The research method was descriptive-correlational, and the statistical population included all high school students in Kermanshah. A sample of 198 people was selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. Partici...

Should public health bodies stop commissioning research from market research companies that serve the tobacco industry?