PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Christopher S. Carpenter
TI  - The Effects of Local Workplace Smoking Laws on Smoking Restrictions and Exposure to Smoke at Work
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.44.4.1023
DP  - 2009 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1023--1046
VI  - 44
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/4/1023.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/4/1023.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2009 Oct 02; 44
AB  - We provide new evidence on the effects of workplace smoking restrictions by studying more than 100 local smoking ordinances in Ontario, Canada from 1997–2004. We advance the literature by examining local (as opposed to state or provincial) laws in a quasi-experimental framework and by explicitly testing for effects on worksite compliance and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We show that the local laws significantly increased workplace smoking restrictions for blue collar workers, and among this group the laws (and, by implication, workplace smoking bans) reduced ETS exposure by 28–33 percent. We find smaller and insignificant estimates for other workers.