"A paper recently published in the journal Tobacco Control purports to show that the implementation of a smoking … the smoking ban"--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site …

Smoking was banned in all Illinois casinos in January 2008. We explore the effects that the smoking ban has had on … observe a natural experiment in comparing the performance of Illinois casinos with out-of-state casinos (no smoking ban) that …

As communities around the nation consider laws restricting smoking in public places, a key political and economic issue …