Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2009
This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and … contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time … variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the …