legal smoking age affected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced indoor … public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data …. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular …, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking …

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

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 …

) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising … influences the set of products from which consumers choose to purchase. Multi-product firms choose prices and advertising in each … medium to maximize their profits. I apply the model to the US PC market, in which advertising expenditures are over $2 …

provided by daily cigarette purchases is consistent with this asymmetric price effect. Monthly cigarette purchase data do not …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective wellbeing by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction …

. Außerdem finanzierte der vom Verband der deutschen Cigarettenindustrie (VdC) gegründete Forschungsrat 'Rauchen und Gesundheit …In den vergangenen Jahren sind anhand der vormals internen Dokumente der Tabakindustrie die Verbindungen zwischen … verschiedenen medizinischen Disziplinen sowie prominenten Vertretern des Faches Public Health und der Tabakindustrie in Deutschland …

Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is … 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 …