ArticleTobacco control2002
Economic effect of restaurant smoking restrictions on restaurant business in Massachusetts, 1992 to 1998.
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- Smoke-free law associated with higher-than-expected taxable retail sales for bars and taverns in Washington State.Preventing chronic disease · 2010Article
- Environmental and economic evaluation of the Massachusetts Smoke-Free Workplace Law.Journal of community health · 2007Article
- Economic effect of a smoke-free law in a tobacco-growing community.Tobacco control · 2007Article
- Smoke-free cafe in an unregulated European city: highly welcomed and economically successful.Tobacco control · 2003Article
- The first decade of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine if restaurant business declines or improves after the implementation of restrictive restaurant smoking policies.
designAnalysis used a pre/post-quasi-experimental design that compared town meals tax receipts before and after the imposition of highly restrictive restaurant smoking policies in adopting versus non-adopting communities. The effect of restaurant smoking policies was estimated using a fixed effects regression model, entering a panel of 84 months of data for the 239 towns in the study. A separate model estimated the effect of restaurant smoking policies on establishments that served alcohol.
main outcome measureChange in the trend in meals tax revenue (adjusted for population) following the implementation of highly restrictive restaurant smoking policies.
resultsThe local adoption of restrictive restaurant smoking policies did not lead to a measurable deviation from the strong positive trend in revenue between 1992 and 1998 that restaurants in Massachusetts experienced. Controlling for other less restrictive restaurant smoking policies did not change this finding. Similar results were found for only those establishments that served alcoholic beverages.
conclusionsHighly restrictive restaurant smoking policies do not have a significant effect on a community's level of meal receipts, indicating that claims of community wide restaurant business decline under such policies are unwarranted.
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