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 …

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 …

Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … employer preferences, neglecting the dynamic nature of human capital development and addiction. In this paper, we formulate a … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from …

discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy … for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …