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 …

influence can play a useful role as descriptors, and possibly as predictors, of drinking and smoking behavior.  …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …

Alamar and Glantz interpret smoking in restaurants as a market failure, and they claim that restaurants should welcome … government laws that disallow smoking in all restaurants. Contrary to their claims, restaurant owners do have an incentive to … eliminate smoking if doing so raises the value of their restaurants. In restaurants, smokers do not impose negative …

In the September 2007 critique of Alamar and Glantz, I argued that smoking in restaurants (and bars) does not … us a meaningful picture of what happened before and after the California smoking ban. Here I show that Alamar and Glantzâ …

The start of daily smoking is often shortly after the resorting of students between elementary and secondary education … smoking. We address the reflection problem by peers’ pre-secondary-school smoking, which is not influenced by the current … preferences toward smoking, is controlled for using own pre-secondary school behavior and the existing prevalence of smoking among …