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The effect of tobacco advertising bans on tobacco consumption

Publication Source

Saffer, H., Chaloupka, F.J. 2000

Publication Title

Journal of Health Economics

Publication Type

Journal article

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Region

Europe, The Americas, Western Pacific

Economy status

High-income economies

Tags High-income economies, Europe, United States, The Americas, Canada, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Western Pacific, France, Germany, Journal article, New Zealand, Japan, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland

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Abstract

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no effect of tobacco advertising. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important insights emerging from this analysis. This paper also provides new empirical evidence on the effect of tobacco advertising in 22 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The primary conclusion of this research is that a comprehensive set of tobacco advertising bans can reduce tobacco consumption and that a limited set of advertising bans will have little or no effect.