We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body weight using data from the Lung Health Study, a … randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. We find evidence that quitting smoking leads to an average long-run weight gain … of around 11-12 pounds, and that the drop in smoking in recent decades explains 14% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

In this paper, I use a social interactions framework to detect whether individual smoking decisions are influenced by … classmate smoking decisions. There are several large challenges in addressing this question, including the endogeneity of school … that the current results suggest smaller social interactions in adolescent smoking decisions than some previous work …

A number of studies have indicated that peer smoking is a highly influential factor in a young person's decision to … paper develops an econometric model of youth smoking that incorporates both peer effects and selection effects …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …