The effect of tobacco advertising bans on tobacco consumption

J Health Econ. 2000 Nov;19(6):1117-37. doi: 10.1016/s0167-6296(00)00054-0.

Abstract

Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no effect of tobacco advertising. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important insights emerging from this analysis. This paper also provides new empirical evidence on the effect of tobacco advertising in 22 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The primary conclusion of this research is that a comprehensive set of tobacco advertising bans can reduce tobacco consumption and that a limited set of advertising bans will have little or no effect.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advertising / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • European Union / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Behavior
  • Humans
  • Public Health
  • Smoking / epidemiology*
  • Smoking / trends
  • Tobacco Industry / legislation & jurisprudence*