Can a smoking ban save your heart?

Fabrizio Mazzonna and Paola Salari

Health Economics, 2018, vol. 27, issue 10, 1435-1449

Abstract: This paper evaluates the causal effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public‐place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 2007 and 2011. We use administrative data on hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, which allow to measure the short‐run effects of the policy on an objective metric of health. We show that the incidence of acute myocardial infarction decreases by approximately 8% immediately after implementation of the law with large heterogeneity across regions. Our results indicate that the policy was effective in reducing the negative externality of smoking with potential spillovers on health inequality.

Date: 2018
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