Impacts of local public smoking bans on smoking behaviors and tobacco smoke exposure.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the immediate and long-term effects of public smoking bans on smoking prevalence, smoking regularity, smoking intensity, and secondhand tobacco smoke exposure. We supplement the extensive literature on the effects of various types of tobacco control legislation on smoking behavior in developed countries by studying the provincial smoking bans and more recent national ban of a middle-income country, Argentina. We focus on the difference between full and partial smoking bans, and take advantage of the time and province variation in ban implementation in order to determine the causal effects of each type of ban. We find that full bans reduce national smoking prevalence over time, especially among younger demographic groups, but have no significant impact on intensity of sm

SUBMITTER: Catalano MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature