The problem of poverty leads to increased use of both legal and illegal drugs. Tobacco and
alcohol are legal drugs that cause particular concern. Both drugs are widely abused in …

We identify a positive causal effect of healthy working environments on corporate innovation,
using the staggered passage of US state-level laws that ban smoking in workplaces. We find …

Obesity is an epidemic health problem in many developed countries, and it is an emerging
public health concern in developing, transitional, and newly developed countries. The …

Are demand-side interventions effective at curbing drug use? To the extent demand-side
programs are successful, their cost effectiveness can be appealing from a policy …

How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests
that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion …

PURPOSE: Despite a large public health interest in substance use among athletes, only a
few works have addressed illicit drug use in relation with sport practice. We have studied …

Objectives To assess the prevalence of active smoking and secondhand smoke (SHS)
exposure among college students in the north of Portugal, and analyze the relationship …

Cross-sectional survey data on Swedish adolescents aged 12–18 was used to analyse
perceived risks of smoking-related lung cancer, the determinants of these risk perceptions …

Highlights•We estimate a difference-in-differences model and conduct a mediation
analysis.•We exploit variation in screening program existence and eligibility ages in …

Background: Although substantial efforts have been made to curtail smoking in Vietnam, the
2010 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) revealed that the proportion of male adults …