tobacco products. We find support for the Becker and Murphy (1988) rational addiction model. We also find that, in the period … tentatively suggest that habit formation was a stronger factor in the persistence of consumption than physical addiction. The …

-medication effect). Short-term stress is a powerful motivator of smoking, and the decision to smoke could trigger biological feedback … smoking. Omitted variables, such as genetic or social factors, could also suggest a spurious correlation. We use data on self …- reported smoking and stress from 240,388 current and former smokers. We instrument stress with temporal distance from September …

Cigarette smoking is a risk factor in a range of serious diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke and … type II diabetes. Theory suggests that working long hours will increase smoking propensities among workers. Consequently … there is a significant body of evidence on the relationship between working time and smoking. Results, however, are …

The existing literature on educational inequalities in adult smoking has focused extensively on differences in current … smoking and quitting, rather than on differences in never smoking regularly (initiation) by education in the adult population … educational gradients in smoking because initiation and quitting occur at different points in the life course. Using data from 31 …

The objective of the study was to present socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in adolescent smoking in Scotland …. The international literature suggests there is no obvious pattern in the geography of adolescent smoking, with rural areas …. Previous studies in the UK have shown an association between lower socioeconomic status and smoking. The Scottish Health …

Understanding current patterns of population smoking by socioeconomic position (SEP) can be substantially enhanced by … followed during critical time periods when the health consequences of smoking became widely known can inform the ways in which … current smoking prevalence has been shaped by the historical processes that preceded it. The present study utilizes data from …

, net of several adult covariates, including family history of AMI. Smoking fully mediated the effects of both accumulated …

Previous studies have associated youth's exposure to filmic images of smoking with real-life smoking acquisition … sought answers to the following questions: How do young people in China make sense of smoking imagery they have seen in film … knowledge about smoking was constructed and communicated. Film representations of smoking concurred with Chinese social …