small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from Australia to examine the association … between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour - prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings were … accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event study …

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … individual smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003 during which separate smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria …

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 …

women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …), which introduced a WBS (in addition to a smoking ban on public places), and adopting a difference-in-differences (DiD … the ban in public places), we document three sets of findings. First, unlike previous studies (focusing on smoking bans in …

for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …

cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

an independent risk factor. We provide useful comparisons with the mortality risks associated with smoking and household …

This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking. -- Smoking …