Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34473 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2666
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
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Working Paper

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