Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation …

between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …

paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model … caloric intake (adjusted for activity level) and smoking, a set of reduced form equations for these outcomes is estimated …

without the use of any product. Thus, the public health returns to smoking cessation product advertisements exceed the private …To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an … empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on …

This paper examines the influence of body weight, body image, and cigarette prices in determining adolescent smoking … initiation. Adolescents who desire to lose weight may initiate smoking as a method of appetite control. Such behavior may … undermine the goals of tobacco control policies that seek to prevent smoking initiation. Using a nationally representative panel …

Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … explained by interpersonal differences in the discount rate. If Fuchs is correct, some health habits can be used as instruments … the OLS estimates. We fail to reject tests of overidentifying restrictions, show how the smoking/education link varies …

regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of children and infants. A rationale … of smoking, smoking behaviors, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …-level changes to smoking ban legislation over time, estimates suggest that smoking bans have improved the health of both infants and …