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  • Don’t worry, CA, your smoke-free bars are still saving lives!

    April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

    A new paper concluding that drunk driving increases after smokefree bar laws are passed was just published in the Journal of Public Economics (Adams and Cotti, J Public Econ 92:1288-1305;2008). Stan Glantz at UCSF, a pioneer in tobacco-free policy, set the record straight through his analysis of the research, disseminated [...]

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    Ethanol vs. Public Health

    April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

    I thought this was an interesting example of unintended policy consequences. . .
    New Jacobson study on potential increased smog fatalities from ethanol

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