would only reduce cigarette sales by about 2 percent, while forcing TV networks to eliminate all on-screen smoking activity …

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior … consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed under the competing hypotheses that smoking is not addictive or that … of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Estimates support the assumptions that cigarette smoking …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

divorce) affect individuals’ smoking behavior and body weight. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, this study accounts for … probability to start or quit smoking and lead to changes in body weight. In particular, smoking behavior and body weight are …; separation from a partner leads to weight loss, increased smoking initiation, and decreased smoking cessation …