More than a ban on smoking? Behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace

Costa-Font, Joan ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919, Salmasi, Luca and Zaccagni, Sarah (2025) More than a ban on smoking? Behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace. Economics and Human Biology. ISSN 1570-677X

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Abstract

We study the potential behavioural spillover effects of a workplace smoking ban (WSB) on a variety of health-related behaviours as well as on people who are not directly impacted by the bans. Drawing on quasi-experimental evidence comparing employed and unemployed individuals in Russia, we document that individuals who give up smoking are less likely to drink or cut back on alcohol consumption. Furthermore, we show that as expected the WSB exerts an impact on the health behaviours of those who aren’t directly exposed to the reform, such as never smokers. Finally, the effects of the WSB are driven by changes among men, 60 percent of whom were smoking before the ban.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Health Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations > H75 - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare L - Industrial Organization > L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy > L51 - Economics of Regulation
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2025 11:24
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2025 11:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128606

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