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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2021 Apr 29;30(8):1719–1744. doi: 10.1002/hec.4280

Table 1:

Summary Statistics: Dependent Variables

All Provinces
No ban in province/year
Ban in province/year
Variable Sample Size Mean Std Dev Mean Std Dev Mean Std Dev
Smoking Prevalence
 Ever Smoker P(St > 0) 108,489 0.524 0.499 0.533 0.499 0.515 0.500
 Current Smoker P(Ct > 0) 108,489 0.279 0.449 0.289 0.453 0.269 0.444
 Current Smoker if Ever Smoked P(Ct > 0 | St > 0) 56,882 0.533 0.499 0.542 0.498 0.523 0.499
Smoking Regularity
 Nonsmoker P(Rt = 0) 0.716 0.705 0.727
 Occasional Smoker P(Rt = 1) 108,489 0.080 0.089 0.071
 Everyday Smoker P(Rt = 2) 0.204 0.206 0.203
Quantity of Cigarettes Smoked per day*
 if a Current Smoker Ct | Ct > 0 30,289 10.647 9.963 10.131 9.592 11.206 10.322
 if an Occasional Smoker Ct | Rt = 1 8,379 4.211 5.705 4.162 5.813 4.273 5.566
 if an Everyday Smoker Ct | Rt = 2 21,910 13.112 10.143 12.644 9.757 13.591 10.504
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure
 Regularly Exposed P(Ot = 1) 108,489 0.469 0.499 0.495 0.500 0.443 0.497
 Regularly Exposed if a Nonsmoker P(Ot = 1 | Ct = 0) 78,186 0.384 0.486 0.409 0.492 0.359 0.480

Notes: Column 2 denotes the form of the dependent variable in the estimating equation (Section 3). Column 3 specifies the size of the sample used in estimation (Section 5).

*

We drop 14 individuals who report being a current smoker but do not report quantity smoked.