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 …

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 …

This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in … particular the role of tobacco taxes. Standard probit analysis is applied to both starting and quitting. Tobacco taxes appear to … 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 … role of tobacco taxes. Applying a variety of parametric duration models, including a split population model, to a sample of … Irish women, it finds mixed results regarding the effect of tobacco taxes. In general the coefficient on tobacco taxes is in …

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 …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

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 …

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration- a metabolite of … reach two important conclusions. First, excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking. Second, smoking bans have …