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 …

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 …

influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Monitoring the Future Surveys, augmented with … cigarette price and policy-related measures to estimate smoking cessation equations for young adult males and females separately … smoking. In addition, policies restricting smoking in private worksites increase the probability of smoking cessation among …

smoking cessation products, based on a new dataset of patents on such products from 1951-2004. We find that an increase in … cigarette tax levels and smoking bans had no discernible impact on the industry-wide rate of invention in smoking cessation …, the introduction of the nicotine gum and patch are estimated to have increased the rate of patenting activity in smoking …

indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places …Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure …

financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years. Settlement payments received by states are strongly related to smoking …

A large literature has documented relationships between state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) and smoking …-experimental models indicate robust effects of SCIALs restricting smoking in bars: these laws significantly increased the presence of … workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … is a weighted average of corresponding initiation and cessation elasticities, a finding that applies more broadly to …

relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We … estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey … state tobacco tax increases of the past 15 years were associated with significant reductions in smoking participation and …