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Replication Data for: Adoption and Compliance in Second-Hand Smoking Bans: a Global Econometric Analysis (with Richard Perkins), International Journal of Public Health, 59 (5), 2014, pp. 859-866

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Title Replication Data for: Adoption and Compliance in Second-Hand Smoking Bans: a Global Econometric Analysis (with Richard Perkins), International Journal of Public Health, 59 (5), 2014, pp. 859-866
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9LAULC
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Objectives We examine the determinants governing both
countries’ enactment of smoking bans in public places and
their ability to successfully put these bans into effect.

Methods Using a large sample (N = 99–184) of low-,
middle- and high-income countries, econometric techniques
are used to estimate the influence of several
variables on cross-national variations in the adoption and
compliance of second-hand smoke laws (2010).

Results We find similarities in the determinants of
adoption and compliance. Yet more notable are the differences,
with several political economy factors which
have a statistically significant influence on countries’ level
of compliance with existing smoke-free laws in public
places found not to consistently influence their propensity
to adopt bans in the first place. Possible explanations for
this discrepancy are that governments are motivated to
adopt smoking bans for reasons other than protecting the
health of their citizens and that the real costs of smoking
bans are predominantly borne at the compliance stage.

Conclusions More effort needs to be made to ensure that
governments realize their existing policy commitments
through effective enforcement of bans.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric