Up in Smoke
Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4362838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Block (0000-0002-8215-3849, Tufts University), Patrick Webb (0000-0002-9857-3354, Tufts University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/605207 |
| OpenAlex | W2082251595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper explores the impact of expenditure on smoking products in low‐income households on child nutrition, as mediated via reduced food expenditure. On the basis of data from a large household survey in rural Indonesia, the study finds that low‐income households containing at least one smoker tend to divert a significant amount of scarce income to tobacco products and that relatively more of the diversion is drawn from food than from nonfood purchases. This results in a real decline in the quantity and quality of food consumed in the poorest households, which is associated with a statistically significant reduction in the nutritional status of children in those households. In other words, parental smoking increases child malnutrition via its displacement effect on food consumption—an intuitive but rarely documented empirical finding. Attention is needed to finding appropriate mechanisms for enhancing food and nutrition in poorest households in tandem with investments in public health information systems that highlight these indirect, as well as direct, links between smoking and child well‐being
Agricultural economics · Business · Consumption (sociology) · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Malnutrition · Socioeconomics · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Health Care Issues · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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Crowding-out effect of tobacco consumption in Indonesia
Impact of tobacco spending on intrahousehold resource allocation in Montenegro
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Tobacco use and household expenditures on food, education, and healthcare in low- and middle-income countries
Estimates of Calorie, Protein, Fat Intake and Welfare in India from Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys, 2011–2012 and 2022–2023
Do parental Smoking Behaviors Affect Children's Thinness, Stunting, and Overweight Status in Indonesia? Evidence from a Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey
Effects of cigarette price increase on fresh food expenditures of low-income South Korean households that spend relatively more on cigarettes
Crowding-out effect of tobacco consumption on household food expenditures in Cameroon
The role of modern malnutrition in modelling Roman malnutrition
Women’s Bargaining Power and Children’s Nutritional Status
Agricultural commodities’ price transmission from international to local markets in developing countries
Food consumption patterns and malnourished Indian children
Dynamic responses to smoking bans
Smokeless tobacco use and public health nutrition
Tobacco control in developing countries
Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000
Maternal Nutrition Knowledge and the Demand for Micronutrient-Rich Foods
Tobacco use in India
Research priorities for tobacco control in developing countries
Determinants of smoking behaviour among adolescents in Semarang, Indonesia
Women and tobacco in Indonesia
Paternal smoking is associated with increased risk of child malnutrition among poor urban families in Indonesia
Crowding out effect of tobacco expenditure and its implications on household resource allocation in India
The impact of tobacco expenditure on household consumption patterns in rural China
Tobacco expenditures and child health and nutritional outcomes in rural Bangladesh
Nutrition Information and Formal Schooling as Inputs to Child Nutrition
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |