All Posts Tagged With: "smoking bans"
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 | ContinuedWho 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 | ContinuedThe Tyranny of the Proper
Jon Sanders is a research associate for the Pope Center for Higher Education Reform in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, a program of the John Locke Foundation. One strain of the vampire legend holds that the bloodsucking fiends can enter people’s homes only with their victims’ consent. Similarly, government can enter an area only if [...]
1Dec1998 | Jon Sanders | 0 comments | Continued-
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