between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …

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

due to differences in underlying preferences for health or risks for obesity. We evaluate heterogeneity in the long … - where weight loss is most beneficial for health - than at low levels. The effects are also strongest for blacks, college …

smoking cessation products, based on a new dataset of patents on such products from 1951-2004. We find that an increase in … cigarette tax levels and smoking bans had no discernible impact on the industry-wide rate of invention in smoking cessation …, the introduction of the nicotine gum and patch are estimated to have increased the rate of patenting activity in smoking …

indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places …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 …

A large literature has documented relationships between state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) and smoking …-experimental models indicate robust effects of SCIALs restricting smoking in bars: these laws significantly increased the presence of … workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however …

relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We … estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey … state tobacco tax increases of the past 15 years were associated with significant reductions in smoking participation and …

the key to meeting public health goals to reduce smoking. However, in many ways, smoking cessation products have been more … pharmaceutical market -- the market for smoking cessation products. Because of their proven effectiveness, these products could be … print advertisements. The archive includes all smoking cessation product advertisements that appeared in over 13,000 issues …

dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … is a weighted average of corresponding initiation and cessation elasticities, a finding that applies more broadly to …

This paper examines the effect of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) advertising on youth smoking. NRT advertising … could decrease smoking by informing smokers that the product can make quitting easier and thus inducing more smokers to try … and quit. However, a moral hazard is created because NRT advertising increases the expectation that cessation is …