Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …

It is well known that smoking causes severe adverse health effects, and it seems evident that governments are justified … or even obliged to implement measures of tobacco control to mitigate these effects. Yet, as this paper argues with a … conclude that the case for control measures aiming at the prevention of smoking initiation among adolescents is indeed strong …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to … changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

also responsible for enormous public health and economic costs, as smoking related health expenditures in Indonesia amount … targeting the tobacco farming and cigarette industries face a dilemma of public health versus rural livelihoods. This policy … in Indonesia. The paper also explores the need for technical support to enable farmers to grow tobacco for other purposes …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …