TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kvasnicka, Michael
AU  - Siedler, Thomas
AU  - Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
        TI  - The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
        PY  - 2018/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11631
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11631
        AB  - This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects are more pronounced on sunny days and days with higher ambient pollution levels.
        KW  - smoking bans
KW  - hospital admissions
KW  - health effects
KW  - second-hand smoke
        ER  -