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Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … two years. These results on the whole imply that marriage internalizes the negative externalities of smoking and thus … leads smokers to reduce smoking.  …
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smoking behavior of women. Differential increases in federal EITC benefits by family size in the mid-1990s allow for a … comparison of smoking status changes between mothers with one and more than one child. We exploit these changes in a difference … smoking was concentrated among those with some college.  …
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smoking. Our main results are that, under not implausible conditions, making cigarettes more addictive can reduce smoking and …
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Abstract Many communities and several states prohibit smoking in bars or restaurants. Using county-level data on … employment from across the US, we find that communities where smoking is banned experience reductions in bar employment compared … with counties that allow smoking. Smoking bans have a larger detrimental impact on bars in geographic areas with a high …
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of various personal characteristics, including obesity, smoking cessation, happiness, and loneliness. Those papers also …
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This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … reported types of information were the risks of smoking (65.2 per cent of sites) and nicotine replacement therapy (77.8 per …
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influence can play a useful role as descriptors, and possibly as predictors, of drinking and smoking behavior.  …
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control, which are supposed to be triggered by an anti-smoking persuasive message, and a personality pattern, such as trait … conducted on a random sample of 246 smoking undergraduate students in two Tunisian business schools. Four anti-smoking print ads … the anti-smoking ads with a high negative emotional intensity, the perceived threat to freedom and trait reactance …
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Examines the impact of restricting tobacco smoking in the Australian hospitality industry. Recent Australian … a study undertaken in 1990, and repeated in 1992, to assess patrons′ attitudes to smoking in restaurants. Discusses the …
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