1. Quantifying the Contribution of Smoking to Regional Mortality Disparities in Germany • Pavel Grigoriev , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Alyson A. Van Raalte , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

2. Obesity Deaths: How Different Coding Schemas Affect U.S. Life Expectancy Estimates • Andrea M Tilstra , University of Oxford; José Manuel Aburto, CPop, University of Southern Denmark; Iliya Gutin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jennifer B. Dowd , Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford.

3. The impact of smoking on trends in socio-economic mortality inequalities in Europe • Wanda Van Hemelrijck , Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Anton E. Kunst, University of Amsterdam; Nicolás Zengarini, Epidemiology Unit, ASL TO3, Piedmont Region, Grugliasco(Turin); Pekka Martikainen, University of Helsinki; Fanny Janssen , Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and University of Groningen.

4. The Contribution of Alcohol Consumption to Past Long-Term Trends in Socio-Economic Inequalities in Life Expectancy in Selected European Countries. • Jesús-Daniel Zazueta Borboa , Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Wanda Van Hemelrijck , Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Pekka Martikainen, University of Helsinki; Nicolás Zengarini, Epidemiology Unit, ASL TO3, Piedmont Region, Grugliasco(Turin); Anton E Kunst, Department of Public Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam; Fanny Janssen , Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and University of Groningen.