Marti Joachim
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Health Econ. 2014 Dec;23(12):1397-410. doi: 10.1002/hec.2993. Epub 2013 Aug 30.
Between 1997 and 2007, smoking prevalence declined from 33% to 28% in Switzerland. Over the same period, funding for tobacco control activities significantly increased, resulting in the implementation of a large variety of national and regional interventions. In this paper, I exploit variation over time and across cantons of tobacco control expenditures to examine the impact of these policies on smoking decisions. I use retrospective smoking information from the Swiss Health Survey (2007) and find that tobacco control expenditures decreased the probability of smoking initiation among adolescents and young adults and increased cessation rates in the general population of smokers. I estimate that if funding had been kept at the 1997 level, there would have been 107,000 additional smokers in 2007.
1997年至2007年间，瑞士的吸烟率从33%降至28%。在同一时期，烟草控制活动的资金大幅增加，从而实施了大量的国家和地区干预措施。在本文中，我利用烟草控制支出随时间和各州的变化，来研究这些政策对吸烟决策的影响。我使用了瑞士健康调查（2007年）中的回顾性吸烟信息，发现烟草控制支出降低了青少年和年轻人开始吸烟的概率，并提高了吸烟者总体人群的戒烟率。我估计，如果资金一直保持在1997年的水平，2007年将会多10.7万名吸烟者。
