than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 … smoking is more dangerous …

designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of … potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for non-smokers, but it is neutral for smokers …, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gender difference in smoking prevalence …

In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce … of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the workplace, is still very limited. In this paper, we use a Diff … comprehensive smoking bans on both perceived workers' health and presence of respiratory problems within workplaces. Results show …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the … impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking bans in the workplace. Analyzing a 2004 … law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers …

-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate … the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity …

employ a triple differences plus Fixed-Effects framework to examine the effect of this change on the probability of smoking … among low-educated mothers. We find that the probability of smoking for white and Hispanic low-educated mothers of two or …

This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different out-comes using county and time variation over … the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces … decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very small and not statistically significant. Well-being is also affected …