public smoking bans. The eff ectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … and in localities that are strongly frequented by youths. In contrast, there is no evidence that a country-wide smoking … minimum legal smoking age aff ected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …