We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …

This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and … variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the … exposure of non-smokers to tobacco smoke by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate non-smokers, and in …

for excessive food intake), alcohol intake and smoking might explain the persistence of health inequalities. We … empirically examine data from two countries, England and Spain, which exhibit rising obesity levels, as well as smoking and … countries. The results document the persistence of income inequalities in obesity and tobacco use, which disproportionately …