Essays about: "smoking ban"

Found 4 essays containing the words smoking ban.

  1. 1. The Swedish Outdoor Smoking Ban of 2019: An Application of Synthetic Control and Matrix Completion Methods in Policy Evaluation

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Petter Berg; Julia Blomstergren; [2021]
    Keywords : Tobacco Control Policy; Smoking Bans; Counterfactual Prediction; Synthetic Control; Matrix Completion;

    Abstract : Smoking bans constitute an important part of the tobacco control policies used globally to improve public health. In July 2019, Sweden implemented new regulation which banned smoking in several outdoor areas nationwide, including outdoor serving areas of e.g. restaurants and bars, whose scope is unique in an international context. READ MORE

  3. 2. The policy process of debates in the Swedish Parliament regarding cigarette smoking- 1971 and 2011 : A policy analysis

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap

    Author : Carin Hellström; [2018]
    Keywords : Tobacco; cigarette smoking; Swedish Parliament; health behaviour; health policy; public health science; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : In 2003 a WHO treaty presented the use of cigarettes and tobacco as an international tobacco epidemic: a public health concern that needed to be diminished. Decreasing smoking prevalence can be an effect of individual choice, the social context or of governmental interventions. READ MORE

  4. 3. Tobacco smoking among Peking University students – smoking as a resistance, lack of information on health problems, or a societal norm? A case-study in Peking University with students aged 18-28

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Mihkel Leis; [2015]
    Keywords : tobacco smoking; health; Chinese students; Peking University; smoking ban; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Within last four decades, smoking has become a major problem for the Chinese People’s Republic (hereafter: China) as there are annually approximately 1.2 million smoke-related deaths. READ MORE

  5. 4. BIG TOBACCO HAS CANCER. IS INNOVATION THE CURE? Marketing innovation in the context of regulation: A case study of the tobacco industry

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Romain Aubert; [2012]
    Keywords : Tobacco; Marketing innovation; smoking; regulation;

    Abstract : Objectives: The tobacco industry has faced increasing marketing regulations since the danger of smoking was widely acknowledged in the 1960s. Critics have pointed out that the "big tobacco" have unlimited resources to circumvent regulations. READ MORE