Global Health Warnings on Tobacco Packaging: Evidence from the Canadian Experiment

Nikolay Gospodinov and Ian Irvine ()

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: New health warnings on tobacco packaging in Canada became mandatory in January 2001. As of that time producers were required to print large-font warning text and graphic images describing the health consequences of using tobacco. This study uses micro data from two waves of Health Canada's Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Surveys bordering the legislation to investigate if the introduction of the warnings had any significant impacts on smokers. The recently drafted Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, under the sponsorship of the World Health Assembly, assigns a central role for this type of message. Our findings indicate that the warnings have not had a discernible impact on smoking prevalence. The evidence of their impact on quantity smoked is positive, though only at a relatively low level of confidence.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.2202/1538-0653.1304

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