Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

We estimate the causal impact of school smoking bans in Germany on the propensity and intensity of smoking. Using … such smoking bans to identify the effects of interest. The estimates from our multipledifferences approach show that six to … ten years after intervention, propensity towards smoking is reduced by 7-16 percent, while the number of smoked cigarettes …

, parental employment, and marital status. We also control for information on personality traits, such as work ethic, self … auf den Effekten der Bedeutung von Religiosität auf Risikoverhalten wie sexuelle Kontakte, Alkoholkonsum, Rauchen (Tabak …

This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of the decision to start smoking using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The data used is a combination of retrospective information on the age individuals started smoking and …,by tracing back these individuals within the panel structure up to the point they started smoking, information on characteristics …

interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by … tobacco are complements. Hence, we conclude that successful anti-smoking policies will not result in the unintended side …

It is well known that smoking causes severe adverse health effects, and it seems evident that governments are justified … conclude that the case for control measures aiming at the prevention of smoking initiation among adolescents is indeed strong …

Over the last years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany … ected by the introduction of state smoking bans. …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …