All Posts Tagged With: "secondhand smoke"

The Economics of Smoking Bans

The war on smoking is proceeding with rapid progress. Anti-smoking activists are successfully fighting for smoking bans in restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, and other places open to the public. California and Delaware have banned smoking in virtually all restaurants and bars. Smoking is prohibited in restaurants in Maine, and voters in Florida recently approved a [...]

1Jul2003 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 3 comments | Continued

Capitalism and Coercion

A century and more ago, when Marxism was in its ascendancy as a theory, its followers (as well as many others) naturally believed its dogma about workers being the helpless pawns of capitalists–forced to sell their labor at less than its true worth, with no real alternative. But now, despite Marxism’s collapse as both a [...]

1Feb2002 | Allan Levite | 1 comment | Continued

Who May Harm Whom?

Smoking has been one of the hot controversies of our time. Many people find tobacco smoke annoying, smelly, and just plain dirty and unpleasant. Some smokers themselves agree. ut today’s smoking restrictions, not to mention the attack on smokers and extortion of tobacco companies, could not have been engineered simply on the grounds that tobacco smoke is unpleasant.

1Apr2000 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | Continued

Scientists Beware

Bruce Benson is DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Many political commentators lament the growing apathy among the voting-age population, but I do not believe apathy keeps many potential voters away from the polls. Many of us care a lot about what politicians are doing; we just don’t trust any [...]

1Apr1999 | Bruce L. Benson | 1 comment | Continued

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health by Jacob Sullum

The Free Press • 1998 • 288 pages • $25.00 John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hounded by billboards and other “public-service” exhortations, barred from lighting up almost everywhere but in their own cars and homes, and saddled [...]

1Mar1999 | John Attarian | 0 comments | Continued

Let Property Settle Smoking Disputes

Andrew Cohen teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Public policy debates nowadays are often confused about what ought to count as a “public” policy. Injecting a healthy appeal to individual rights could help resolve disputes by showing just what ought to count as anyone’s proper business. The antismoking hysteria gripping America is [...]

1Feb1998 | Andrew I. Cohen | 2 comments | Continued

The Nanny State

I’ve never smoked. I even dislike being near lit cigarettes. (Cigar and pipe-smoke don’t bother me.) Moreover, I’m sure that smoking is addictive and unhealthy. Nevertheless, the ballyhooed “tobacco settlement” announced in June leaves a taste in my mouth far more foul than would be left by choking my way through an entire carton of [...]

1Sep1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | Continued

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