Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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 …