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Smoking and Politics
Author(s) -
Machan Tibor R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01811.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , politics , government (linguistics) , intervention (counseling) , economic interventionism , public opinion , political science , law , public administration , law and economics , media studies , sociology , medicine , philosophy , library science , computer science , psychiatry , linguistics
Anti‐smoking lobbyists regularly call for government intervention to prohibit smoking in ‘public places’. Tibor Machan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auburn, Alabama, contends that such differences of opinion should be resolved in the adaptable market, not subject to inflexible law.