A sound understanding of the potency of tobacco control policies is key to tobacco prevention. This study exploits a … Smoothed Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression estimator to gauge the effectiveness of tobacco control policies while … and tobacco control expenditures are examined in a single framework, which has the promise of accounting for potential …

A sound understanding of the potency of tobacco control policies is key to tobacco prevention. This study exploits a … tobacco control expenditures are examined in a single framework, which has the promise of accounting for potential synergies … thereof. Further, endogeneity of price (a proxy for tax policy) and other tobacco control policies is addressed through a …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …