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This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …-smokers. While bans in public transportation or in schools decrease the exposure of non smokers, bans in recreational public places …
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This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … states, we show that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on … non-smokers. While bans in public transportation or in schools decrease the exposure of non smokers, bans in recreational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566368
This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and … contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time … variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476312
This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and … contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time … variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746058
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children's exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new economic quantification of the impact of this exposure on child health. Such information is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268071
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children’s exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new economic quantification of the impact of this exposure on child health. Such information is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566672
This research examines the relative effectiveness of various smoking control initiatives in lowering U.S. smoking prevalence. The main contribution lies in considering alternate state-level restrictions on retailers as well as smokers. Greater restrictions on smokers lower smoking prevalence,...
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326814
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708087
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882800