Public Support for Smoking Bans Diffusing to Developing Countries

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...

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 ?

Structural Contributors to Public Revenues in Developing Countries

Since 1960s and the following financial crisis in developing countries, a wide research has been conducted on financial capability of states in repayment of their debts. Though having been considered at various importance levels during the past decades, this subject seems to have today become a controversial issue in economic discourses. In principle, three indices are applied to determine the ...

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...