Thank you for not smoking: evidence from the Italian smoking ban

Paolo Buonanno and Marco Ranzani

No 246, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: By 2030, tobacco is expected to be the cause of about 10 million deaths per year worldwide. In Italy tobacco smoking is still a pervasive and relevant phenomenon. Using data from a national health survey, we investigate how individuals react to the introduction of a public smoking ban in Italy. Our estimates suggest that the Italian smoking ban in private places open to the public reduced smoking prevalence by 1.3% and daily cigarettes consumption by 8%. We find heterogeneous effects by gender, marital status, and region of residence.

Keywords: smoking; public smoking ban; quasi-natural experiment; individual behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2012
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