presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … restricting smoking in workplaces or other public places appear to discourage both cigarette and snuff use, though less …

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory … other tobacco control policies, such as advertising restrictions, prominent in tobacco control debates. Research addressing …

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 …

menthol use and smoking behaviors, many quitting behaviors, and cigarette purchase behaviors. Although menthol use is much … more common among Black smokers, Blacks are less likely to be current smokers, and conditional on current smoking Blacks … are less likely to be daily smokers, are less likely to have started smoking before age 18, smoke fewer cigarettes per day …

. The constitutionality depends, in part, on the likely impact of GWLs on smoking decisions, and whether they generate … knowledge as opposed to emotional reactions against smoking. Using an online discrete choice stated preference experiment we …

the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We …

Are teenage and adult smoking causally related? Recent anti-tobacco policy is predicated on the assumption that … preventing teenagers from smoking will ensure that fewer adults smoke, but direct evidence in support of this assumption is scant … document a strong, positive relationship between teenage and adult smoking: specifically, deterring 10 teenagers from smoking …