reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We … therefore analyze the staggered introductions of smoking bans and the variation in cigarette taxes over more than twenty years … evidence that smoking bans are associated with lower levels of smoking. In contrast, higher cigarette prices tend to be …

In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce … of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the workplace, is still very limited. In this paper, we use a Diff … comprehensive smoking bans on both perceived workers' health and presence of respiratory problems within workplaces. Results show …