Anti-smoking policies can in theory make smokers better off, by helping smokers with time-inconsistent preferences … tobacco excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places. We use a difference-in-differences approach to compare the effects … on well-being for smokers and non-smokers. Smoking behaviour is likely to be influenced by policy interventions, leading …

's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking … accurately relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants … other outcomes when retrospective or longitudinal data are available. -- Culture ; Immigrant health ; Smoking …