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Comments on: The smoking debate redux http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: One year of TVHE « The visible hand in economics http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/#comment-4 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:03:16 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/#comment-4 […] year of TVHE 19 07 2008 Yeppie, we have been around for a year.  It all started with this post from Rauparaha (although to be fair there was an introduction post along the lines of this one […]

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By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/#comment-3 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:29:55 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/#comment-3 Interesting. I notice you mention the concept of time inconsistence for smokers, maybe you could explain that in more detail ;).

Are you sure that this is socially optimal though. During my first year I gained a lot of satisfaction from having a drink and a smoke at the same time, as the two are complements, and I’m not even a smoker. Furthermore, no when you go to bars it smells like farts and BO, I preferred it when it smelt like smoke.

Surely, if individuals hated being in bars with smokers so much, non-smoking bars would have appeared. After all if non-smokers value not having smoke around, they would be willing to pay a premium, and the bar would sell a differentiated good. If the non-smoker had a smoking friend they would negotiate. If not smoking was so important, the smoker would sacrifice smoking indoors (and maybe choose a worse alternative for smoking outside) for some compensation (e.g. a drink). As this transaction didn’t take place (which would have been a version of the Coase theorem) I doubt the externality was severe enough to require a solution.

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