I divieti possono creare ricchezza?
Conclusione contestata:
"...These results add to the growing body of literature that should give restaurant and bar owners a real economic incentive to support smoke-free laws. Despite the rhetoric that smoke-free laws hurt the restaurant business, the marketplace indicates that these laws increase the profits and the values of restaurants and bars and are good for business..."
Contestazione:
"...one naturally wonders: We know that some people like to smoke and prefer restaurants where they can smoke. What about the restaurant that specifically caters to smokers? Do Alamar and Glantz say that such a restaurant will benefit from a ban on its niche? Or do they mean restaurants on the whole? If “on the whole,” have they adequately accounted for the restaurants and would-have-been restaurants that lose?...the whole logic ignores that the restrictions eliminated certain restaurants from existence. In the restricted locations, those restaurants have dropped out of the sample, and their losses are ignored"
Conclusione contestata:
"...These results add to the growing body of literature that should give restaurant and bar owners a real economic incentive to support smoke-free laws. Despite the rhetoric that smoke-free laws hurt the restaurant business, the marketplace indicates that these laws increase the profits and the values of restaurants and bars and are good for business..."
Contestazione:
"...one naturally wonders: We know that some people like to smoke and prefer restaurants where they can smoke. What about the restaurant that specifically caters to smokers? Do Alamar and Glantz say that such a restaurant will benefit from a ban on its niche? Or do they mean restaurants on the whole? If “on the whole,” have they adequately accounted for the restaurants and would-have-been restaurants that lose?...the whole logic ignores that the restrictions eliminated certain restaurants from existence. In the restricted locations, those restaurants have dropped out of the sample, and their losses are ignored"
