lifecourse patterns of smoking behaviour among elderly respondents who have a smoking related illness. Focussing upon interaction …

as absolute levels in explaining the education-health gradient. We show that relative education impacts smoking, when …

Duration models for lifespan and smoking, that focus on the socio-economic gradient in smoking durations and length of … latent factor influences the risk of starting and quitting smoking as well as the hazard of mortality. Frailty could in …°uence smoking behaviour through two mechanisms: the effect of life expectancy on initiation of smok- ing and the impact of adverse …

, this could largely be explained by adjustment for employment, marital status, smoking and alcohol consumption. Smoking was …

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 …

effects underline the relative importance of fathers in mitigating cigarette smoking in the past month, regularly alcohol … drinking in the past year, and marijuana smoking in the past month. The research highlights the need to account for unobserved …

: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings …. For the second, we show that lottery winnings are also associated with more smoking and social drinking. General health …

persistence, and heavy truck accidents. They also have strong predictive power for Body Mass Index (BMI) and smoking status …

strong habits in drinking and smoking, and the absence of habits in fat and protein consumption. We also found evidence of … differences in the demand for fat and cigarettes. Older consumers seem to be more persistent in their drinking and smoking …

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …