02339cam a22002537 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100001900069245016400088260006600252490005200318500001900370520128300389530006101672538007201733538003601805700001701841700002501858710004201883830008701925856003702012856003602049h0131NBER20141228102631.0141228s2000 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aAlston, Lee J.10aSocial Reformers and Regulationh[electronic resource]:bThe Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada /cLee J. Alston, Ruth Dupre, Tomas Nonnenmacher. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2000.1 aNBER historical working paper seriesvno. h0131 aNovember 2000.3 aThe apogee of anti-smoking legislation in North America was reached early in the last century. In 1903, the Canadian Parliament passed a resolution prohibiting the manufacture, importation, and sale of cigarettes. Around the same time, fifteen states in the United States banned the sale of cigarettes and thirty-five states considered prohibitory legislation. In both the United States and Canada, prohibition was part of a broad political, economic, and social coalition termed the Progressive Movement. Cigarette prohibition was special interest regulation, though not of the usual narrow neoclassical genre; it was the means by which a group of crusaders sought to alter the behavior of a much larger segment of the population. The opponents of cigarette regulation were cigarette smokers and the more organized cigarette lobby. An active Progressive Movement was the necessary condition for generating interest in prohibition, while the anti-prohibition forces played a more significant role later in the legislative process. The moral reformers' succeeded when they faced little opposition because few constituents smoked and/or no jobs were at stake because there was no cigarette industry. In other words, reform is easy when you are preaching to the converted. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web.1 aDupre, Ruth.1 aNonnenmacher, Tomas.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aHistorical Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. h0131.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/h013141uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/h0131