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

particular, the analysis investigates individuals’ perception of smoking effects in the short and long-term and whether they … equations for survival expectation, subjective health and smoking. Endogeneity and unobservable heterogeneity are addressed … perception and rationality in addiction. One important result is that for both types past smokers perceive smoking consequences …

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

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 …

' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding 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 …

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 …

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … socioeconomic gradient in smoking initiation and cessation as well as for mortality. Furthermore, we find that parental smoking …

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. …