Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Smoking in Restaurants: Rejoinder to Alamar and Glantz

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*David R. Henderson* is an associate professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a research fellow with the Hoover Institution. He was previously a senior economist wit

Abstract

In the September 2007 critique of Alamar and Glantz, I argued that smoking in restaurants (and bars) does not constitute an externality and that Alamar and Glantz’s use of cross-sectional data to derive a price/sales ratio did not show us a meaningful picture of what happened before and after the California smoking ban. Here I show that Alamar and Glantz’ reply mainly failed to engage my main points. I end with a challenge.

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Volume (Issue)
5(2)
Pages
163-168
Published
JEL classification
C10, D62, H23, J83, K32, L51
Keywords
Smoking, smoke-free, externalities, restaurants
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2,874 (updated 31 Dec 2011)

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