not know that tobacco causes disease and premature death. Many others know little beyond a vague notion that "smoking is …

Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks … continuously or frequently exposed to tobacco smoke at work. In France, where there are laws restricting smoking in public spaces …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …