This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial … features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban. Smokers and non … the smoking regime strategically. Since the (dis)utility from smoking and social interaction are substitutes, the smoking …

-inconsistent smokers better off. Health economists have used this result to argue in favor of cigarette taxes that restrain smoking … benefit a smoker at every point in life. Smokers could be allowed to purchase smoking licenses' when they start to smoke, and …

-inconsistent smokers better off. Health economists have used this result to argue in favor of cigarette taxes that restrain smoking … benefit a smoker at every point in life. Smokers could be allowed to purchase smoking licenses' when they start to smoke, and …

taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save … reduced smoking - reductions in medical expenses and earnings from adverted premature deaths - could bring small, albeit …