Aims: To investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personality and smoking, and test whether …-smoker, and never smoker), smoking initiation, smoking relapse, and smoking cessation. Associations between personality and ….87-0.96). Sociodemographic variables did not appear to modify the associations between personality and smoking. Conclusions: Adult smokers have …

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 …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio …-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their … smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with …

scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking … probability and intensity. Smoking relapses and decreased smoking cessation drive the effects. Effects are stronger if the partner …

In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans … smoking behavior. Our results reveal that more than 50% of the differences in cigarette consumption between male Turkish …

changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …

smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65 …

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 …

As in most OECD countries, smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption have been decreasing in Germany since the early … 2000s. This paper analyses whether smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption, as well as their development over time … interventions on German smoking behaviour. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a large longitudinal study of the …