This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different out-comes using county and time variation over … the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces … decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very small and not statistically significant. Well-being is also affected …

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 …

(MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking …

smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction …. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking … areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second …

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 …

most visible in developed countries such as the US, Canada, and European Union countries. Developing countries and Asian …

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …