Discussion paper

DP16252 Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or internal religiosity, but largely observable (external) religiosity prevents them from wallowing those vices.

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Citation

Roman, M, K Zimmermann and A Plopeanu (2021), ‘DP16252 Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 16252. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp16252