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Abstract (English)

Despite a large literature emphasizing the indirect costs associated with female smoking, there has been limited research assessing whether men and women respond di erently to anti-smoking policies. This paper lls that gap, examining the e ect of Canadian public bans on male and female smoking rates and cigarette consumption, the unique rollout of Canadian bans allowing me to address several identi cation issues associated with non-random adoption of local bylaws. I nd that public bans led to large declines in female smoking rates but had virtually no impact on male smoking. These results are robust to a variety of alternative estimation strategies, and are consistent with previous studies that have found females to be much more likely to engage in `social smoking.’ Moreover, the results highlight how public bans can be an e ective tool to reduce female smoking, a key objective of policy makers.

Abstract (French)

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