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 …

Die massiven Gesundheitsschäden, die Rauchen verursacht, sind allseits bekannt. Die Gründe, warum Menschen zu Rauchern … sowie früher mit dem Rauchen anzufangen als solche aus sogenannten traditionellen Familien. Auch die Intensität des … Tabakkonsums hängt von der Familienform ab - Personen, die in Alleinerzieher-Haushalten aufwachsen, rauchen im Durchschnitt mehr …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

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 …

substantially reduce youth smoking. Part of the support for these predictions comes from evidence that higher taxes reduce aggregate … tobacco sales and adult smoking rates. But taxes may have much different impacts on youth starting behavior than on adult …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

Stopping smoking is the most important action that all smokers can take to improve their current and future health …. Current smoking cessation treatments produce only modest long-term abstinence rates, and so new cessation methods are required … making a quit attempt and stopping smoking. Results from randomized, placebo-controlled trials in smokers who were not …

Sex, age, education, marital status, obesity, and smoking have been found to affect health transitions between non …

This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … reported types of information were the risks of smoking (65.2 per cent of sites) and nicotine replacement therapy (77.8 per …