• A spatial analysis of the Spanish tobacco consumption distribution: Are there any consumption clusters? 

      Almeida, Alejandro ; Golpe, Antonio A.; Martín Álvarez, Juan M. (Public Health, 09/2020)
      Objectives: The objective of this short communication is to provide a previous empirical analysis to locate the regions that have distortions in per capita tobacco consumption. The location of these regions and their ...
    • Asymmetric behavior of tobacco consumption in Spain across the business cycle: a long-term regional analysis 

      Martín Álvarez, Juan M. ; Almeida, Alejandro ; Galiano, Aida ; Golpe, Antonio A. (International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 12/2020)
      Many theoretical and empirical studies have analyzed the relationship between the economic cycle and tobacco consumption using the GDP and unemployment rates as the key variables for measuring economic phases. However, few ...
    • Influencia del precio de los cigarrillos en España: Un análisis de descomposición Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index desde 1957 hasta 2018 

      Martín Álvarez, Juan M. ; Almeida, Alejandro ; Golpe, Antonio A.; Vides, José Carlos (Revista espanola de salud publica, 2021)
      Fundamentos: La elasticidad precio de los productos de tabaco es un instrumento para minimizar su consumo. Esta idea se basa en que, aunque el tabaco tiene una naturaleza adictiva, un aumento en su precio provoca ...
    • Smoking does not impact social and non-social cognition in patients with first episode psychosis 

      Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Teresa ; García-Portilla, M. Paz; Parellada, Mara; Bobes, Julio; Calvo, Ana ; Moreno-Izco, Lucía; ...et al.; Balanza, Vicent (Schizophrenia Research, 09/2018)
      Background: Many studies having shown significant improvements in non-social and social cognitive performance in smoking FEP patients compared to non-smoking FEP patients. The findings are controversial. This study analyzed ...
    • The Price Elasticity of Cigarettes: New Evidence from Spanish Regions, 2002-2016 

      Almeida, Alejandro ; Golpe, Antonio A. ; Iglesias, Jesús; Martín Álvarez, Juan M. (Nicotine and tobacco research, 2021)
      Introduction There is an agreement in the literature that tobacco price elasticity is around −0.4 for given location. Furthermore, works only focus separately, on the temporal dimension or the spatial dimension, however, ...
    • Tobacco use in first-episode psychosis, a multinational EU-GEI study 

      Sanchez-Gutierrez, Teresa; Rodriguez-Toscano, E.; Ferraro, Laura; Parellada, Mara; Calvo, Ana; Roldan, Laura; López, G.; Rapado-Castro, Marta; La Barbera, Daniele; La Cascia, Caterina; Tripoli, Giada; Di Forti, Marta; Murray, Robin M.; Quattrone, Diego; Morgan, Craig; Van Os, Jim; Garcia-Portilla, P.; Al-Halabi, S.; Bobes, Julio; de Haan, Lieuwe; Bernardo, Miguel; Santos, Jose Luis; Sanjuán, Julio; Arrojo, Manuel; Ferchiou, A.; Szöke, Andrei; Rutten, Bart P.; Stilo, S.; D'Andrea, G.; Tarricone, Ilaria; Diaz-Caneja, C. M.; Arango, Celso (Psychological Medicine, 2023)
      BackgroundTobacco is a highly prevalent substance of abuse in patients with psychosis. Previous studies have reported an association between tobacco use and schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship ...