This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …

After long trailing the American development on tobacco control, Europe has seen a big wave of public place smoking … bans in the past five years, beginning when Ireland took the plunge and banned all smoking in workplaces in 2004. Inspired …, the main topic of debate is the question of banning smoking in bars and restaurants to protect employees and other …

changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …

As in most OECD countries, smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption have been decreasing in Germany since the early … 2000s. This paper analyses whether smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption, as well as their development over time … interventions on German smoking behaviour. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a large longitudinal study of the …