The Effects of Public Place Smoking Restrictions on Individual Smoking Behaviour in Australia

35 Pages Posted: 8 Jan 2009

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Hong Il Yoo

Loughborough University - School of Business and Economics

Date Written: November 15, 2008

Abstract

While smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in Australia, existing policy options, except for bans on smoking at public places, seem to have limited scope for expansion. Eight new smoking bans, introduced in six different Australian jurisdictions over 2003 and 2005, provide a basis for evaluation. The analysis extends a popular two-part model of smoking behaviour by GLM and correlated random effect models. Difference-in-differences estimation using 4 waves of the Household, Income, Labour Dynamics Australia Survey indicates that neither the probability nor the intensity of smoking was affected. The results are robust to alternative specifications and estimation methods.

Keywords: smoking, smoke-free law, tobacco regulation

JEL Classification: I12, I18

Suggested Citation

Yoo, Hong Il, The Effects of Public Place Smoking Restrictions on Individual Smoking Behaviour in Australia (November 15, 2008). UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2008 ECON 24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1324509 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1324509

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