This paper studies the demand for tobacco products in post-unification Italy. We construct a very detailed panel … dataset of yearly consumption in the 69 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1913, and use it to estimate the demand for tobacco … considered, tobacco was a normal good in Italy: aggregate tobacco consumption increased with income. Subsequently, we consider …

We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that … were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases … argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …

This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the … Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a … positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …