Article Critique Name Institutional Affiliation Identification The article “Why Understanding Smoking Bans is Important for Estimating Their Effects: California’s Restaurant Smoking Bans and Restaurant Sales†is an article written by Robert Fleck and Andrew Hansen. The article sought to understand the correlation, if any, between smoking bans and restaurant sales in the state of California. Being one of the first states to implement municipal, city and state smoking bans, California was the state of choice for the authors. The article was completed on September 5th 2006, and published in January 2008 in the Economic Inquiry. This was the 46th Volume of the Economic Inquiry. The article can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website. The identification number of the paper is SSRN-id929583. The link to the website is http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=929583. Summary The article
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