Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …

school to instrument the influence of peer smoking on an individual's own smoking behavior. We argue that this design … alleviates many problems inherent to estimating peer effects. Using this approach, we find the relationship between peer smoking … and individual smoking to be larger than that estimated by prior studies. Further, we explore the reduced form …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal … and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an instrument, we find that individuals whose spouses smoke are 40 percent … smoking bans and individual income becomes stronger at higher levels of aggregation. This social multiplier could explain the …

with steeper wage profiles. To test this hypothesis we use smoking as an instrument for time preference. Panel data from … the NLSY (1979-94) are ideal for our purposes since it contains information on smoking behavior in addition to detailed … undergraduates at Barnard and Columbia College show that dance majors have the highest smoking rate …

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 …

manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …

financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years. Settlement payments received by states are strongly related to smoking …

The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … tobacco prices has been found to be the single most effective method to reduce smoking. Yet, bidis, the most common form of …

Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to have significant adverse health effects for new born babies. Smoking is the … main question for policy makers is whether tobacco control policies can influence maternal smoking and reduce adverse birth … imposing strong restrictions on indoor smoking. We estimate reduced form models of birth weight and gestational weeks, focusing …

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 …