argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …

Non-smoking ordinances are among the most popular albeit controversial public health-care legislations worldwide. This … article provides an empirical assessment of the impact of non-smoking ordinances on bar and restaurant revenues in German … corresponding increase by non-smokers. These findings support the German – and similar – non-smoking legislations in the sense that …

While smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in Australia, existing policy options, except for bans on … smoking at public places, seem to have limited scope for expansion. Eight new smoking bans, introduced in six different … smoking behaviour by GLM and correlated random effect models. Difference-in-differences estimation using 4 waves of the …

Recent tobacco control regulation in North America and Western Europe has had a salutary effect, even if smoking …; mandating smoke-free environments; and tax and price policies that make smoking prohibitively expensive. This article examines … imperatives of science, ethics, and human rights oblige society to reduce the burden of smoking, particularly among the most …

smoked react differently to serious, smoking related health shocks. The results support the conclusion that smokers have a … different risk perception process. Smokers were only sensitive to their own smoking related illnesses while former smokers and … smokers react to information messages, suggest that generalized messages about the hazards of smoking may be less effective …

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into eff ect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative eff ect 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 …

Background. Smoking causes significant health damage and may incur a significant economic burden to society. This study … investigates the years of potential life lost, the direct medical costs and the indirect costs of cigarette smoking in Germany …. Method. Using the concept of attributable risks and the prevalence-based approach, smoking-attributable mortality and …

Smoking, like many health-related behaviors, has "social" aspects. The smoking habits of my neighbors are likely to … shape my own smoking habits, due to what is known in economics as “peer effects.” These complementarities in behavior may … elements, together with tastes and various demographics, in determining the smoking behavior of people. This article discusses …