Public smoking bans and self-assessed health: Evidence from Great Britain

John Wildman and Bruce Hollingsworth

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 1, 209-212

Abstract: Smoking bans in public places are considered an important public health intervention. The impact of such bans on health, and especially self-reported health, has not been widely considered in the literature. This paper investigates the impact of a public smoking ban on self-reported health status in Great Britain. We find that there are benefits for non-smoking women, but no benefits for smokers.

Keywords: Smoking ban; Natural experiment; Self-assessed health; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D04 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.10.019

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