The Korea Local Administration Review

This study is intended to analyze the factors which affect adoption of Smoke-freePolicies for protecting Non smoker and restricting smoking in public places. Throughthe theoretical review for this empirical analysis, it is drawn into three categorizedvariables. Those are stakeholders(public interest groups, regulatory demands, interestgroups, percent smokers), political and economic preferences of local government(unifieddemocrats, government ideology, election time, tobacco consumption tax revenue,proportion spent on health), and institutional and external influences(institutionalacceptance, the pressure of higher authorities). It is hypothesized by those.The panel logit analysis, which allows the study on influences of the factors fora given period, is used. The results show that In the case of other operating companies,assumptions are showing a rather different direction at first. Secondly, Politicalaffiliation of the mayor, when the mayor is conservative, is likely to legislate forthe regulation compared to the independents but the difference did not exist whenanalyzed through a comparison of the heads of the conservative and liberal tendencies.Lastly, The results suggest that variables of tobacco consumption tax revenue,institutional acceptance, the pressure of higher authorities are most significant. Thisstudy presents a policy implications on the basis of this analysis result.
□ Keywords: smoke-free policies, local governments, the adoption of regulatorypolicies