This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction …

1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult …

discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy … for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …

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

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to … design campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls …

policy response has been to impose restrictions on smoking through 100% smoke-free bans (comprehensive smoking bans). Yet … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … reducing adult cigarette consumption and declines in adult ETS exposure extend to children.However, if smokers compensate by …

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 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 …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …