trade off between current utility derived from smoking and a mortality risk increasing with age. Thus, individuals with a … shorter potential life expectancy have less incentive to cut back on smoking. We use detailed, long term, event history data … on mortality, morbidity and smoking to empirically evaluate the ability of the rational addiction model with endogenous …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

A key concern in policy debates over youth smoking is whether preventing children from smoking will stop them from … smoking as adults or merely defer initiation into smoking. This paper estimates determinants of smoking status in late … adolescence viewing smoking at age 14 as an endogenous 'treatment' on subsequent smoking. This approach disentangles causation …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

policy response has been to impose restrictions on smoking through 100% smoke-free bans (comprehensive smoking bans). Yet … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … shifting their consumption of cigarettes from public venues that impose a comprehensive smoking ban to smoking at home, then …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …