This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to … changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate …

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 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 …

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 …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

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 …

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 …

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 …