Adda, Jerome; Cornaglia, Francesca - Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) - 2005
This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration- a metabolite of nicotine- measured in a large population of non-smokers...