This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to … the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior. We show the importance of smoking intensity … as a long-run determinant of smoking cessation. We also investigate the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in …

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 …

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 …