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TOBACCO DISPLAY BANS: A GLOBAL FAILURE
Author(s) -
Basham Patrick,
Luik John
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2010.02057.x
Subject(s) - revenue , tobacco industry , business , empirical evidence , tobacco use , environmental health , advertising , political science , medicine , law , finance , population , philosophy , epistemology
This paper examines the effects of tobacco display bans in four countries: Canada, Iceland, Thailand and Ireland. The empirical evidence suggests that the bans have not been effective at reducing the incidence of smoking. They have, however, succeeded in severely damaging the revenues of the independent retail sector and bolstering the illicit market in tobacco.