The public demand for smoking bans

Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany’s sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals’ smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitu...

1 Are Public Smoking Bans Necessary ?

Public smoking bans are good for the heart.

r p A e n this time of health care reform debate in the U.S., it is ashionable to focus on what is wrong. Unmentioned is rguably the most important health triumph in the past 50 ears: the steep decrease in deaths from cardiovascular disease 1–3). Between 1950 and 2005, the age-adjusted, all-age death ate from heart disease decreased from 587 per 100,000 persons o 211 per 100,000, a spectacular ...

One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior.

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Eco...

Public support for smoking bans diffusing to developing countries.

Back in 2004, Massachusetts policy makers escalated their efforts to vaccinate the state's population against cancer — not with a pill or an injection but with a policy to ban smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants and bars. Declines in secondhand smoke exposure from that effort — led by Howard Koh, M.D., a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the state's health commis...