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JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 6-28Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pam.20548
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U.S. state and local governments have increasingly adopted restrictions on smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes in mortality and hospitalization rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that smoking bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases. An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a smoking ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature. (C) 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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