This short paper uses cross-country data on per capita cigarette consumption and selected socioeconomic variables to … higher literacy among women have relatively greater and positive impact on cigarette consumption. Even after controlling for … seem that aging and economic, and social developments are pro-cigarette consumption …

This paper provides a recent look at global smoking trends across population subgroups for a large sample of countries …. Attention to international aspects has been scarce in the literature. The prevalence of various smoking control policies across … population appear to be crucial determinants of smoking prevalence. Among four categories of smoking control policies …

, focusing especially on the relationship between smoking behavior, cigarette prices, and other factors that can be affected by … factors with a statistically significant effect (increasing smoking) are: age, being male, owning cigarette promotional items …The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), supported by the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control and the World …