Public-place smoking laws and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in public places
By: Christopher Carpenter, Sabina Postolek, Casey Warman
Contributors: Postolek, Sabina; Warman, Casey R.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15849; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15849.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  A recent IOM report suggests that laws restricting smoking in public places reduce acute myocardial infarction, presumably by reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).  We study adoption of these laws in Canada using data that include questions about respondents' ETS exposure in bars, restaurants, and other places.  In fixed-effects models we find that these laws had no effects on smoking but induced extremely large and statistically significant reductions in exposure to ETS in bars and restaurants for both non-smokers and smokers.  Our results indicate wide latitude for health improvements in the US if smoking were banned in public places"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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