This study evaluates the impact of cigarette prices on smoking initiation and cessation among adults in two pooled … higher prices reduce smoking across the board, this reduction occurs through different behavioral mechanisms in lower versus … higher income countries. Specifically, cigarette prices reduce smoking rates by deterring initiation in LMICs while in UMICs …

between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour - prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings were … accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event study … framework, we show that the reform reduced smoking rates by around 4% within the first year of the policy. The effect decreases …

African Americans suffer disproportionately from the adverse health consequences of smoking, and also report … is known to have a negative influence on smoking cessation rates and overall health, little is known about the influence … of socioeconomic status on smoking cessation specifically among African Americans. Thus, the purpose of the current study …

between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour - prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings were … accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event study … framework, we show that the reform reduced smoking rates by around 4% within the first year of the policy. The effect decreases …

Our paper investigates the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries. We … analyze longitudinal data of individuals by using information about their age of onset of smoking. We apply hazard rate models … to study smoking initiation. Thus, we are able to take into account observed and unobserved personal characteristics as …

We investigate sources of educational differences in smoking. Using a large German data set containing retrospective … information on the age at smoking onset, we compare age-specific hazard rates of starting smoking between (future) low and high … educated individuals. We and that up to 90% of the educational differences in smoking develop before the age of 16, i.e. before …