Mazzonna Fabrizio, Salari Paola
Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.
MEA, Munich, Germany.
Health Econ. 2018 Oct;27(10):1435-1449. doi: 10.1002/hec.3778. Epub 2018 Jun 4.
This paper evaluates the causal effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public-place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 2007 and 2011. We use administrative data on hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, which allow to measure the short-run effects of the policy on an objective metric of health. We show that the incidence of acute myocardial infarction decreases by approximately 8% immediately after implementation of the law with large heterogeneity across regions. Our results indicate that the policy was effective in reducing the negative externality of smoking with potential spillovers on health inequality.
本文通过利用2007年至2011年瑞士实施的公共场所吸烟禁令的时间和地理差异，评估环境烟草暴露对健康的因果效应。我们使用急性心肌梗死住院的行政数据，这些数据能够衡量该政策对客观健康指标的短期影响。我们发现，法律实施后，急性心肌梗死的发病率立即下降了约8%，各地区存在很大差异。我们的结果表明，该政策有效地减少了吸烟的负面外部效应，并可能对健康不平等产生溢出效应。
