these workplace policies reduce smoking prevalence and smoking intensity among workers. Our estimates suggest that workplace … work at establishments with workplace smoking bans, estimates from bivariate probit and two-stage least square equations … tobacco smoke (ETS). In response, smoking has been banned on many jobs. Using data from the 1991 and 1993 National Health …

This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … in smoking rates. Using a sample of people who smoked in the previous wave, we find that job stress is positively related … smoke. We also find that the smoking/stress relationship is neither explained by heterogeneity across individuals in …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal … and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an instrument, we find that individuals whose spouses smoke are 40 percent … smoking bans and individual income becomes stronger at higher levels of aggregation. This social multiplier could explain the …

There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most …-law significantly reduced SHS exposure among blue collar workers by 25-30 percent, and we confirm that workplace smoking laws reduce … findings advance the literature by confirming that workplace smoking bans reduce smoking, documenting the underlying mechanisms …

. 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 …

smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other … 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 …

between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … likely intervening variable because of the strong effect of smoking on morbidity and mortality, and because there is a strong … negative correlation between smoking and years of schooling -- at least at high school levels and above. This paper tests the …

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 … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places …

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