Smoking and social interaction
By: by Panu Poutvaara, Lars Siemers.
Contributors: Siemers, Lars.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2666; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2666
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Smoking -- Psychological aspects.; Non-smoking areas.
Description: "We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second-best) policy"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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