The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known,
yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive …

Tobacco is a significant product providing considerable economic benefits to countries
worldwide, while its increased consumption causes health and socio-economic losses for …

In 2011, China implemented tougher driving-under-the-influence laws, which criminalized
driving under the influence of alcohol for the first time and increased penalties. This paper …

Based on a life-course utility model that incorporates healthy and unhealthy, short-run and
long-run consumption behavior of consumers, this study examines the unintended impact of …

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and cigarettes are addictive substances and addictive
substances are often related in consumption with each other. However, the potential …

Health lifestyles in China reflect complex interplays of various structural forces, yielding
intricate and evolving patterns. Leveraging data from the 2004–2015 China Health and …

Little is known about the effects of anticorruption campaigns on individuals' consumption
behavior. Using the anticorruption campaign launched in China as a quasi-natural …

Objectives This study estimates the effect of chronic disease diagnoses (CDDs) on elderly
Chinese individuals' alcohol consumption behaviour. Subjects and participants Our analysis …

China is a country with large urban–rural disparities. These disparities have been related to
public health issues, including smoking/alcohol consumption among older adults. In this …

Exploiting the fact that hypertension is diagnosed when a person's blood pressure reading
exceeds a medically specified threshold (90 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure or 140 …