This paper studies the formation of social norms for considerate smoking behavior. Being considerate gives smokers a … smoking is assumed to be stronger the less used he is to being exposed to passive smoking. The analysis shows that … introduction of a smoking regulation may move the society from an initial no-consideration Nash equilibrium to a Nash equilibrium …

Non-smoking ordinances are among the most popular albeit controversial public health-care legislations worldwide. This … for by a corresponding increase by non-smokers. These findings support the German – and similar – non-smoking legislations …

Background: Smoking causes higher incidence of certain diseases and greater severity of most health conditions. Smokers … and recent quitters have higher health care utilization than never smokers and long-term quitters; as a result, smoking … causes an increase in health care costs. This raises the hypotheses that (1) smoking cessation may promote cost savings by …

Much research has examined the effect of anti-smoking policies on the use of cigarettes, but relatively little work has … taxes lower rates of smokeless tobacco use, they substantially increase smoking among young men. For example, a ten … percentage point increase in the tax on smokeless tobacco would raise the smoking rate by 5.3% percent in this group. The …

While recent evidence casts some doubt, it is generally-accepted that the price sensitivity of smoking varies inversely … with age. We investigate the responsiveness of older adult smoking using variation from recent historically-large cigarette … find consistent evidence that higher taxes reduced smoking participation by adults aged forty-five to fifty …

distribution, and unobserved health trends indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in smoking …

Much is known about the effects of prices and tobacco control policies on cigarette smoking, but little is known about …

Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are … consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based on constructed measures …