Using a panel of 45 states for the period 1982-97, this study analyzes the importance of several restrictive alcohol regulations, including advertising bans for billboards, bans of price advertising, state monopoly control of retail stores, and changes in the minimum legal drinking age. In...

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) for the period 1988-98,...

It has often been alleged that alcoholic beverage manufacturers disproportionately target their advertising at minors instead of at people over the age of 21. Empirical analysis presented in this article challenges that allegation; alcoholic beverage manufacturers appear to target people of...

In 2003, the alcohol beverage industry spent more than $1.6 billion on advertising in measured media outlets, including $394 million on ads placed in magazines. Industry critics assert that some of these activities intentionally target adolescent audiences and thereby contribute importantly to...

This paper presents a synthesis of cigarette advertising elasticities from econometric studies for the U.S. (25 studies) and other countries (13 studies). Summaries are presented for each sample using fixed- and random-effects weighted means and weighted regressions. The weighted regressions...

This paper presents a review of advertising bans in the United States, including bans pertaining to alcohol and cigarettes. I review the laws on commercial speech as established by the Supreme Court. An economic history is presented of regulation of alcohol advertising and tobacco advertising,...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between alcohol advertising placements in magazines and adolescent readership. Poisson and negative binomial regressions are applied to count data on cumulative placements by beverage for 35 major magazines during the years 1997-2001. The results...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco advertising bans on youth smoking prevalence in developing countries. Despite little direct empirical analysis of this issue, public health professionals frequently propose advertising bans as a first step in dealing with youth smoking. Using a Bayesian...

Advertising bans can increase or decrease alcohol consumption due to effects on beverage choice, price competition, and substitution by producers toward non-banned media. We study bans on broadcast advertising in seventeen OECD countries for the years 1977-95, in relation to per capita alcohol...

Beer advertising is a topic that has frequently attracted the attention of industrial organization economists. This update reviews major events, data trends, and research for each of three issues: (1) the importance of advertising and product differentiation for structural change in the brewing...