Smoke-Free Law Did Affect Revenue from Gaming in Delaware

FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2005-028B

11 Pages Posted: 29 Jul 2005

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Michael R. Pakko

Arkansas Economic Development Institute

Date Written: June 2005

Abstract

A paper recently published in the journal Tobacco Control purports to show that the implementation of a smoking prohibition in Delaware had no statistically significant effect on the revenues of three gaming facilities in that state. After undertaking a thorough analysis of the data, I find that the smoke-free law did affect revenues from gaming in Delaware. Total gaming revenues are estimated to have declined by at approximately $6 1/2 million per month after the implementation of Delaware's Clean Indoor Air Law. This represents a loss nearly 13% relative to average monthly revenues in the year preceding the smoking ban.

Keywords: Gambling, smoking, revenues, slot-machines

JEL Classification: L83, I18

Suggested Citation

Pakko, Michael R., Smoke-Free Law Did Affect Revenue from Gaming in Delaware (June 2005). FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2005-028B, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=761945 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.761945

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