Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 1-32
We evaluate the effect of smoking bans and excise taxes on the exposure to tobacco smoke of nonsmokers, and we show their unintended consequences on children. Smoking bans perversely increase nonsmokers' exposure by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate nonsmokers. We...