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Informationen zum Autor Dean R. Lillard, PhD, is a labor economist in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University and Director of the Cross-National Equivalent File project. He has published articles on health economics in leading scholarly journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Statistics in Medicine, and Social Science and Medicine. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.Rebekka Christopoulou, PhD, is a labor economist in the Economics Department of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has presented her work extensively at academic conferences, and has published her research in edited books and scholarly journals, including Preventive Medicine and the International Journal of Public Health, Klappentext Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, and places these data in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts. Zusammenfassung Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking rates are declining very slowly in advanced countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, researchers still do not fully understand what drives smoking decisions.Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, with nation-specific representative samples spanning more than eighty years of recent history. To inspire hypotheses on the determinants of smoking behavior, the authors place these data in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts, which differ greatly both across countries at a particular time and over time in a given country. Though significant research has been conducted on smoking statistics and tobacco control policies, most descriptions of smoking behavior rely on cross-sectional "snapshot" data that do not track individuals' habits throughout their lifespan. Lillard and Christopoulou's work is a unique and necessary text in its comparative life-course approach, making it a long overdue complement to the existing literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou Part 1. The Anglo-Saxon World: Australia, Canada, UK, US Chapter 2. Smoking in Australia Dean R. Lillard Chapter 3. Smoking in Canada Philip DeCicca and Logan McLeod Chapter 4. Smoking in the United Kingdom Rebekka Christopoulou Chapter 5. Smoking in the United States Dean R. Lillard Part 2. Western Europe: Germany, Spain Chapter 6. Smoking in Germany Dean R. Lillard Chapter 7. Smoking in Spain Ana I. Gil Lacruz Part 3: Eastern Europe and Asia: China, Russia and Ukraine, Turkey Chapter 8. Smoking in China Feng Liu Chapter 9. Smoking in Russia and Ukraine before, during, and after the Soviet Union Dean R. Lillard and Zlata Dorofeeva Chapter 10. Smoking in Turkey Zeynep Önder Part 4. Cross-country patterns Chapter 11. Smoking by men in cross-country perspective Philip DeCicca, Logan McLeod, and Feng Liu Chapter 12. Smoking by women in cross-country perspective Rebekka Christopoulou and Zeynep Önder Chapter 13. Relative smoking patterns of men and women in cross-country perspective Dean R. Lillard and Ana I. Gil Lacruz Appendix A. Description and sources of raw data Appendix B. Derivation of historical smoking prevalence Appendix C. Time-line of tobacco-related events by country ...