We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental smoking habits on their children …'s smoking decisions is a causal one. We find evidence of same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a crucial … role in determining their daughters' smoking decisions, while fathers' smoking habits are primarily imitated by their sons …

drinking, especially for males, but does not have any significant impact on smoking or marijuana use habits of young adults …

granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking … are designed to restrict youth access to tobacco are only effective in reducing smoking participation among certain groups …This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age …

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …

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 …

argues that excise duties on drinking, smoking, gambling, sugar-sweetened beverages, plastics, fossil fuels, motoring …