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 …

A stated objective of the Australian Plain Packaging Act 2011 is to reduce smoking prevalence. We use the Roy Morgan … (possible) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence. Two informative analyses help to draw conclusions on the (actual …) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence in Australia. First, we look at the year of data before plain packaging was …

stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … taxes increase the probability that low-income smoking households take-up food stamps. …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction …

as male that do not spend extra-time at work or female increasing physical activity. Furthermore, smoking cessation may …

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … individual smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003 during which separate smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …