This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … individual smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003 during which separate smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria …

This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking. …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …

This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in … exert a negative influence over decisions to start smoking, but their effect on quitting smoking is less clearcut. …

This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the …

multivariate 5 equation probit model. In that model, lifestyles (diet, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking) are a function of …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government's revenue …

This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are … complementarities between smoking and drinking a model which allows for the joint determination of smoking and drinking is also …

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 …