, 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 …

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …

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 …

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 …

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 …

years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …

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. …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

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