tobacco smoke (ETS). In response, smoking has been banned on many jobs. Using data from the 1991 and 1993 National Health … Interview Survey and smoking supplements to the September 1992 and May 1993 Current Population Survey, we investigate whether … these workplace policies reduce smoking prevalence and smoking intensity among workers. Our estimates suggest that workplace …

residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies … question as the people who quit may not necessarily start fires. Using a state-level panel, I find that reductions in smoking … and increases in cigarette prices are associated with fewer fires. However, laws regulating indoor smoking are associated …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … the effects of smoking are based on observed relations between cohort smoking patterns and cohort death rates from lung … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

U.S. state and local governments are increasingly restricting smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally … rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace …

motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by price or smoking bans. The latent class model identifies three types of …

We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U ….S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking … informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting family smoking game,' with each sibling's smoking endogenous, may have …

The apogee of anti-smoking legislation in North America was reached early in the last century. In 1903, the Canadian …

There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … using the differential timing of adoption of over 100 very strong local smoking by-laws in Ontario, Canada over the period … local laws on actual worksite smoking policy (i.e. the quot;first stagequot;) were not uniform; specifically, local laws …