nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their cigarettes. Our estimates suggest that tax increases reduce youth … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …

, 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 …

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults …

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. …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

experienced an exogenous expansion in their incomes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort, we … 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 …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

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 of … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …