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Amendment of the smoke-free law and its influence on patterns of tobacco use and motivation to quit smoking among patients of a general practitioners
Švancarová, Iveta ; Kulhánek, Adam (advisor) ; Gabrhelík, Roman (referee)
Background: Supporting the public health care system is a priority for any advanced society. In line with who's recommendations, a key Law on The Protection of Health Against Harmful Effects of Addictive Substances was adopted in 2017, the main priority of which is to reduce passive smoking with its negative effects on humans. Objective: The aim of the study was to determine whether there was a change in tobacco use patterns and a change in smoking cessation incentives following the introduction of new legislative changes (Act No. 65/2017 Coll.). Methods: A prospective cohort study was carried out in connection with the introduction of Act No. 65/2017 Coll. Trained nurses were distributed in two waves, before the introduction of the law and three months after its introduction, prepared questionnaires were distributed to adult clients/patients addressed by general practitioners' offices in Prague. The condition was participation in both waves of the study. 131 completed adult questionnaires were submitted for subsequent processing. Changes in daily cigarette consumption, the ratio of cigarettes smoked in a restaurant, on the street, at home, and motivation to quit smoking were analysed. Results: A statistically significant reduction in daily cigarette consumption (on average 1.7 cigarettes per day)...
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Impact of smoke-free laws on hospitality businesses in the European perspective
Simpartl, Josef ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Haas, Emma (referee)
Ever since smoke-free laws regarding the hospitality business were proposed, there was an argument that these policies were going to harm their revenues and employment. This bachelor thesis examines this argument in the European context. The examination is divided into three parts. First, it aims to distinguish between effects of two distinctive forms of smoke-free laws. Second, it analyzes the impact of smoke-free policies over time. Third, it attempts to assess differences of their impact based on regional or socio-economic differences. Using difference-in-differences analysis of administrative annual data from Eurostat database, this thesis does not find any permanent effect of smoke-free laws on revenues or employment of hospitality businesses. The results of the analysis also show, that if there was any significant impact throughout the first years of the smoke-free law's validity, it was always short-lasting. Still, the over time impacts of the individual forms of smoke-free laws differ. In case of a partial smoke-free law, there is a statistically significant negative impact on turnover immediately after its implementation and a positive impact on employment in the third and fourth year after its implementation. The complete smoking ban does not exhibit any statistically significant impact at all. In...
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Econometric analysis of dependence beer’s consumption on smoke-free law
Sukup, Vojtěch ; Zouhar, Jan (advisor) ; Polonyankina, Tatiana (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out whether there is some dependence between beer consumption and smoke-free law in 41 countries of Europe and adjacent areas in the period from 1998 to 2012 using econometric analysis. The thesis is divided into theoretical part with methodology and practical part. The empirical part is processed by the StataCorp software program STATA. Due to the nature of the database, it is necessery work with them as panel database. These are different from cross-section and time series data. In the STATA program, models OLS, GLS, LDSV, GEE and more, are designed to work with panel data. In the final phase of my work I choose the best model and interpret its values. The intended objective of the work was achieved because the smoke-free law in all models had a negative effect on the consumption of beer.
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