Saturday 3 February 2018

Smoking bans: Good for us, good for our kids

a column by Brandy Lipton, Kerry Anne McGeary, Dhaval Dave and Timothy Roeper for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Many regions in the US have enacted 100% smoke-free laws in public places to reduce harmful second-hand smoke exposure, but if these laws simply displace smoking to the home, the children of smokers may suffer. The column uses data on infant and child health since the first ban in 1990 to show that children are healthier in many dimensions when there is a 100% smoke-free law. Partial smoking bans have a much smaller impact.

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