#2021-027 Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviours
Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann & Aurelian-Petruș Plopeanu
While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed; but
today religiosity is strong even among the youth in post-communist
countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how
external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviours 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 in those vices.
JEL Classification: I12, N34, Z12
Keywords: addictive behaviour, Orthodox, external and internal
religiosity, youth, smoking, drinking, drugs, Romania
