We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the … than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 … smoking is more dangerous …

consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British … cigarette consumption. Results show that HE is endogenous with smoking. Once endogeneity is controlled for, HE is found to have … a higher negative effect on smoking than in models where it is treated as exogenous …

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …

variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age … instruments. I find that the instrument constructed using early smoking behaviour is valid as well as being strong, and argue that … estimates of 12.9% (early smoking), 10.2% (RoSLA) and 12.5% (both instruments) …

smoking habits on their children's smoking decisions. In order to account for the potential endogeneity of parental smoking … habits we use instrumental variable methods. We find that mothers play a crucial role in determining their daughters' smoking … decisions, while fathers' smoking habits are transmitted primarily to their sons …

goods involved (smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol) and their role as anxiety reducing goods which suggests that the …

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration - a metabolite … states, we show that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on …

smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the … 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have …