Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tobacco Control Policies
- Why do we prevent smoking?
- Negative externalities
- Burden on non-smokers and employers
- Lack of self-control
- Govt intervention
Anmerkungen:
- Some ppl not aware of health risk
Anmerkungen:
- Those who cannot read or write
- Some smokers are irrational
- Hyperbolic discounting
Anmerkungen:
- More weight on current satisfaction and less weight on future satisfaction
- Key Tobacco Control Policies
- Graphic warnings
Anmerkungen:
- Wear out effect: Need to change picture because people are used to the picture (it becomes less effective)
- Taxes (Prov & Fed)
Anmerkungen:
- Policy reduced by
- black market/native reserves/smuggling;
-also wealthy people can still buy cigarettes
- compensatory behavior: more inhales per cigarette
- Point of sale display bans
- Telephone hot lines
- School education programs
- Youth Access Enforcement
Anmerkungen:
- Effectiveness reduced when smokers asking cigarettes from non retail sources such as friends and parents; theft (black market)
- Clean air laws
- Media Compaigns
- Advertising bans