ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on the effectiveness of territorial or geographic tobacco restrictions. It presents empirical results from a recent study of US states. Insurance companies, due to fire hazards of smoking and the costs on non-smokers, now routinely charge higher premiums to establishments without any designated smoking areas. F. J. Chaloupka and H. Saffer used data on US states to determine the effect of workplace smoking restrictions on cigarette consumption. Three types of territorial restrictions are considered. These are indoor state-level restrictions on smoking including limits on smoking in workplaces, public places and educational or health places; age restrictions on sale of tobacco products to minors; and restrictions on minor's access to tobacco products including restrictions on vending machines and other marketing restrictions. Internationally, workplace smoking bans seem to be effective. There is need, however, for studies based on data from developing nations and territorial smoking restrictions directed at population subgroups such as youth.
