This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

legal smoking age affected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced indoor … public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that …