prominent role in legislative debates about using taxation as a principal tool to discourage smoking. In addition to informing …

We include insurance for addiction treatment in the standard rational addiction model and show that an increase in the … level of insurance for addiction treatment induces a forward-looking individual to consume more of a harmfully addictive …

This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette … taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide … simple binary choice model based on a random utility model to examine the effects of smoking control policies on individual …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …), which introduced a WBS (in addition to a smoking ban on public places), and adopting a difference-in-differences (DiD … the ban in public places), we document three sets of findings. First, unlike previous studies (focusing on smoking bans in …