The tobacco industry claims that increases in tobacco tax will not discourage people from smoking because smokers will …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial … features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban. Smokers and non … the smoking regime strategically. Since the (dis)utility from smoking and social interaction are substitutes, the smoking …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …

more time consistent when trading-off the current pleasure from smoking and its future health harms, and (iii) smoking bans …