It has retained a touch of its 'semi-urban', 'semi-pastoral' past and can behabit-forming; 'those who come to the city do not go back'.
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The aim of the paper is to study howhabit-formingbehavior affects the supply-side responses of capital and labor to changes in fiscal policy.
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Ahabit-formingbehavior departs from the behavior prevailing with time separable preferences because agents raise their consumption only gradually.
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As a result, the medical community began to publicise thehabit-formingproperties of such medications.
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Households are assumed to possesshabit-forming, endogenous rates of time preference.
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I do not believe that they are quite aware of the dreadfulhabit-formingeffect these drugs have on people, and particularly on young people.
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We are also in favour of the ban onhabit-formingadditives.
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I think we have probably stimulated drug-taking, in the sense of thehabit-formingdrug-taking, because of this over-prescribing.
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Tobacco ishabit-formingand harmful to health, and it can have catastrophic consequences on the individual, costing society dearly in terms of health outlay.
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These are substances that have helped to make cigarettes even morehabit-formingthan they would be without these substances.
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I have no evidence that addiction tohabit-formingdrugs has increased through doctors prescribing without seeing the patients concerned on each occasion.
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Although they are not physically addictive, they can behabit-formingand gross misuse of them can seriously damage mental health.
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In my experience, for governments they are a bit like drug addiction; they arehabit-forming.
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There is a great need for a tremendous inculcation of information andhabit-formingin children.
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We may find that we enjoy talking together and it may becomehabit-forming.
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