TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Odermatt, Reto
AU  - Stutzer, Alois
        TI  - Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
        PY  - 2013/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7177
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7177
        AB  - The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. 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 not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction and the idea of bans as self-control devices.
        KW  - tobacco control policies
KW  - smoking bans
KW  - cigarette prices
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - addiction
KW  - self-control
        ER  -