@techreport{NBERw14790,
 title = "Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans",
 author = "Kanaka D. Shetty and Thomas DeLeire and Chapin White and Jayanta Bhattacharya",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "14790",
 year = "2009",
 month = "March",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14790",
 abstract = {U.S. state and local governments are increasingly restricting smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes in mortality and hospitalization rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases. An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a workplace ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature.},
}