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Passive smoking: the effect of bans and taxes

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia


Smoking bans have been widely introduced in recent years in an effort to reduce non-smokers' exposure to tobacco smoke. Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia evaluate the effect of these restrictions - and of taxes on cigarettes - on the incidence of passive smoking and, in particular, their unintended consequences for children.


July 2010     Paper Number CEPCP315

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