preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking … aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … influence of health-related mediating factors such as parental smoking and alcohol consumption. It turns out that role modeling …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …

This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry …, thus shedding some light on the biological mechanisms linking smoking to disability retirement. We demonstrate a strong … association between smoking and disability retirement. Among individuals aged 50-64, smokers have a six percentage point higher …

smoke relative to boys, even after we control for parental, sibling, and peer smoking. Importantly, we uncover similar … patterns when analyzing other risky behaviors such as drinking or smoking marijuana. This reinforces the idea that more gender …-equal social norms may come at an extra cost to women's health, as they increasingly engage in risky behaviors (beyond smoking …

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior - eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking - in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

relates to risky behaviors like smoking, drinking, and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …