follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to investigate the social gradient in cancer, considering both lifetime …

' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle …This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in … Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding smoking …

present a theoretical model of smoking that defines an individual’s life-cycle addiction and cigarette consumption in the …This paper evaluates the impact of smoking bans on smoking using a policy change introduced by the UK government. We … presence and in the absence of a public smoking ban. The model shows that the imposition of a public smoking ban should affect …

equations for survival expectation, subjective health and smoking. Endogeneity and unobservable heterogeneity are addressed …This work aims to assess risk perception of smokers in reporting survival expectations and subjective health. In … particular, the analysis investigates individuals’ perception of smoking effects in the short and long-term and whether they …

is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to design …,among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This practice is … campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls. …

smoking consumption pattern and investments in health capital as simultaneous choices within a single optimisation problem …-order difference equations is reduced to a single fourth-order difference equation defined both for smoking and health and which … persistence in the evolution of both smoking consumption and health capital with direct effects of past health and smoking …

multivariate framework, we propose a recursive model for expected longevity, self-assessed health and smoking duration, where … health and smoking variables are potentially endogenous. Unobservable individual-speci¯c heterogeneity is considered by … (2004) release of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The SHARE provides a numerical measure for …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior 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 behavior between men and …

smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … favourable (parents are non-smokers). The health gain from not smoking (not attributable to parental smoking behaviour) is about …This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of …

stable, providing a natural control group. We evaluate the impact of schooling on smoking, for the beneficiaries of the post … evidence that educational expansion contributed to a decline in smoking. Our results also suggest that tobacco control policies … have reinforced the schooling-smoking gradient. …