Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Discussion paper / Internet publication

ID	2172146
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.09.010
Author(s)	Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
Author(s) at UniBasel	Stutzer, Alois Odermatt, Reto
Year	2013
Month and day	01-01
Title	Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
Series title	Discussion Papers Series
Number	7177
Pages	47
Publisher / Institution	IZA
URL	http://ftp.iza.org/dp7177.pdf
Abstract	The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess, even more so when related consumption choices challenge people's willpower. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered introduction of bans and apply an imputation strategy to study the effect of anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are barely related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction of smokers who would like to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction and the idea of bans as self-control devices.
ISSN	2365-9793
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/41098/
Full Text on edoc	Available
ISI-Number	WOS:000367408200013

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