workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however … reductions associated with SCIALs in previous research are unlikely to have been directly caused by effects of workplace smoking …A large literature has documented relationships between state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) and smoking …

these workplace policies reduce smoking prevalence and smoking intensity among workers. Our estimates suggest that workplace … work at establishments with workplace smoking bans, estimates from bivariate probit and two-stage least square equations … tobacco smoke (ETS). In response, smoking has been banned on many jobs. Using data from the 1991 and 1993 National Health …

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 …

There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most …-law significantly reduced SHS exposure among blue collar workers by 25-30 percent, and we confirm that workplace smoking laws reduce … findings advance the literature by confirming that workplace smoking bans reduce smoking, documenting the underlying mechanisms …

This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … in smoking rates. Using a sample of people who smoked in the previous wave, we find that job stress is positively related … smoke. We also find that the smoking/stress relationship is neither explained by heterogeneity across individuals in …

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 …

pharmaceutical market -- the market for smoking cessation products. Because of their proven effectiveness, these products could be … the key to meeting public health goals to reduce smoking. However, in many ways, smoking cessation products have been more … 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 … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …

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 …