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 …

We explore the effects of recent Medicaid expansions on Medicaid-financed prescriptions for evidence-based smoking … increased smoking cessation prescriptions by 36% with heterogeneity across medication class. We provide evidence that these …

, Infants, and Children (WIC) and smoking among prenatal WIC participants. We use WIC data from eight states participating in ….7 percentage points more likely to be smoking at intake than women who enroll in the third trimester. Among participants who smoked … likely to quit smoking 3 months before delivery and 3.4 percentage points more likely to quit by postpartum registration …

Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health …. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking habits of pregnant women 1959-1966, we find that immediately after the … 1964 Report, more educated mothers immediately reduced their smoking as measured by both self-reports and serum cotinine …

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person …'s decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking … accurately relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants …

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places …