Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places. …

In this paper it is argued that the slowness of the legislativesystem implies pre-commitment of legislation for at …

workers across sectors, it is important for OSH measures to go beyond workplace exposure to the disease and to include the …

smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the population. However, our estimates …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 federal states. We exploit this variation to identify …

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking … general failure in the literature to control for past smoking behaviour of individuals. Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS …) regressions show that the smoking wage penalty is reduced by as much as a third, if past smoking of individuals is controlled for. …

order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …

In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …