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Authorities to implement no-smoking policies in some or all of their public housing units. To date, only an estimated 4% of PHAs … concerning residential smoking regulations and discusses policy strategies for making public housing units smoke free …
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Were public interest or public choice factors the primary reason for the adoption of state barber licensure in the United States during the Progressive Era? The primary public interest rationale for licensure was to protect the public from a communicable disease known as the “barber’s...
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Cigarettes are the leading cause of residential fire fatalities in the United States, resulting in 700 to 900 deaths per year. Annual property damage is approximately $400 million, and the total annual economic loss is estimated to be nearly $4 billion including health care, lost productivity...
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, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy. Since the publication of Rabin and Sugarman's Smoking Policy, class …
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Laws that prohibit, regulate, or tax cigarettes can generate illicit markets for tobacco products. Illicit markets both reduce the efficacy of policies intended to improve public health and create harms of their own. Enforcement can reduce evasion but creates additional harms, including...
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more time consistent when trading-off the current pleasure from smoking and its future health harms, and (iii) smoking bans …
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Did policy interventions contribute to the gradual segmentation of lending markets starting with the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis? We investigate this question in an international Cournot duopoly model under an equity constraint. Two symmetric multinational banks compete for corporate...
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Recent tobacco control regulation in North America and Western Europe has had a salutary effect, even if smoking …; mandating smoke-free environments; and tax and price policies that make smoking prohibitively expensive. This article examines … imperatives of science, ethics, and human rights oblige society to reduce the burden of smoking, particularly among the most …
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Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are … consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based on constructed measures …
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Within the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’), regulatory measures of Canada and the United States restricting …
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