The Empirical Impact on Day by Day Smoking of Workplace Bans

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Some empirical evidence supports the substitution of smoking from the workplace to the home or the weekend in the presence of workplace bans. But the evidence is not uniform. Whether smoking at home before and after work, or at the weekend, increases or decreases depends on the smoker’s aversion to within- or between-day consumption variance. We estimate the effects using the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Surveys (CTUMS). Both full and partial bans are found to reduce consumption significantly in all seven days of a week. We use a variety of tests to address self-selection into the smoking environment and find that our results are robust. The distinction between full and partial bans may provide an explanation for the wide range of existing estimates for the numerical impact of bans. JEL classifications: I12, I18. Smoking bans addiction shift of smoking variance aversion Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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