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Final Report for the Bismarck Tobacco-Free Coalition

An Economic Evaluation of the Effects of the North Dakota and Bismarck Smoking Bans Enacted in 2005 on the Local Bismarck Restaurant/Bar Market. Final Report for the Bismarck Tobacco-Free Coalition . 11-08-2007.

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Final Report for the Bismarck Tobacco-Free Coalition

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  1. An Economic Evaluation of the Effects of the North Dakota and Bismarck Smoking Bans Enacted in 2005 on the Local Bismarck Restaurant/Bar Market. Final Report for the Bismarck Tobacco-Free Coalition 11-08-2007

  2. Prepared by: Duane B. Pool, Ph.D.Contributors: Robin Reich, Ph.D., CSUand Michael Carroll, Ph.D., BGSU Acknowledgements: Kathy Strombeck, OTC Pat McGeary, BBPH

  3. Justification • Understand the economic implications of government policy • Alters expectations • Externalities

  4. Introduction • The tobacco industry has been subject to regulation at many levels for decades. • San Luis Obispo California 1990 • Smoking in public buildings • Bismarck enacted a ban on smoking in restaurants in Oct 2005. • Significant debate around restaurant and bar smoking • Health benefits of cessation and clean indoor air

  5. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants • Costs and benefits • The impacts on local sales revenue and employment. • Economic theory rather than empirical evidence from observational studies • Both sides on uncertain footing • Few local studies • Opinion surveys • Adams and Cotti (2007) found that geographic effects were significant to labor pool studies.

  6. Economic Theory • Two mechanisms through which altered behavior will be detected • Announcement effect • Direct effect

  7. How a price or revenue gradient works.

  8. Data • Prefer profit • Use Reported Taxable Revenue • NDOTC • ND Century Code 57-39.2-23 • Data had to be delivered in blocks large enough that proprietary information about any individual entity was sufficiently obfuscated to meet privacy standards .

  9. Data • NDOTC • provided taxable revenue for all full-service restaurants. • Bar-only businesses were not made available because of numbers to satisfy privacy laws • Lack of precision from low observation numbers when these data were grouped. • Analyzing these data would not lead to confident information because there are too few observations before and after policy enactment.

  10. Data • Delivered by the NDOTC on 13 August 2007 • Taxable sales reported by full-service restaurants in Bismarck • First Quarter 2002 through fourth quarter 2006 • The data were sorted at NDOTC on total taxable sales for all 5 years • Separated into groups of five in descending order.  • Liquor sales were included for those businesses that report liquor under the same permit as food sales. 

  11. Data and Methods • New entrants • Used only in evaluation of the overall market • Analyses were performed using a before and after effects model. • General Linear Model (GLM) • Intercept and temporal dummy variable were used to compare distinct before and after effects (Steele and Torrey 1980).

  12. Results • Revenues between groups were significantly different (F = 104.6, df = 98) • Group 2 had the highest revenue growth rate of approximately $11,000 per year • Group 1 second with approximately $5,000 per year.

  13. Group Data Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

  14. Results • The overall market, adjusted for inflation • 3.2% annual growth rate prior to 12 October 2005 • 7.2% annual growth rate after the effective date of the ban. • Four new entrants

  15. The overall market, adjusted for inflation

  16. Results • Crowding out effect • Least impact on Group 2 restaurants • 2.7 % real annual growth rate • New entrants grew to capture greater than 23% of the total market revenue. • The lowest annual growth rates were in Groups 4 and 5, each at a nominal rate of approximately $300 per year • or a 2% annual reduction in real inflation adjusted revenue per year.

  17. Crowding Out

  18. Results • Group was the most important variable in describing the changes in revenue over the five year period, followed by year and then quarter. • Revenues differed significantly among quarters. • Revenues increase from the first quarter to the fourth quarter in a curvilinear fashion. • Consistent among years

  19. Quarterly Growth

  20. Curvilinear Quarterly Revenue Growth

  21. Results • If there are seasonal business cycles they are currently overwhelmed by the overall growth of the market.

  22. Quarterly Growth Lack of seasonal effect v. Adams and Cotti, 2007

  23. Discussion • The smoking statute had no discernable impact on overall revenues. • -4,449 and t-value of 0.99 • NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT

  24. Discussion • Overall growth in the market • 3.2% per annum prior to regulation • 7.2% after regulation. • Without further analysis this may have been attributed to the ban but, • Market share for new restaurants increased from 14.2% to 23.4% over the same period. • Increase in revenue is likely attributable to the increase in restaurants rather than the change in statute.

  25. Increasing Market share of New Restaurants

  26. Discussion • Bismarck Restaurant/Bar market • growing • more competitive • gained a total of thirteen new firms • Competition between existing and with new firms seems to be the greatest contributor to revenue distribution between firms.

  27. Discussion • Moderately larger firms • Competitive • Smaller than average firms • Vulnerable • Average and large restaurants • Resilient – slight loss

  28. Negligible changes in total revenue are a sufficient proxy to suggest regulatory costs are not being transferred to restaurant owners and the smoking ban has not cause reductions in overall industry employment.

  29. Suggestions • Incorporate several key questions into your sampling surveys. • Address dining and drinking participation and behavior before and after the ban. • Whether the respondent is a smoker. • Do families dine with their children more often after the ban than before? • Ages of children?

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