[vpFREE] Re: The long term economic effect of smoking bans

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"
<tralfamidorgooglycrackers@...> wrote:
>
> > You mention polluters here. Are you referring to automobile
> exhaust?
> > Should I, as a non-driver, have to continue to breath your
> automobile
> > exhaust?
> >
> I'll answer this question with perhaps more thought than it
deserves.
>
> The answer is YES--because the benefit of having roads to drive on
> accrues to ALL members of society, even those that DON'T drive
> themselves; you might take a cab or bus, or ride in someone else's
car
> (or ambulance, or police car). Therefore, the social cost--that of
> automobile exhaust in the atmosphere--is balanced by the social
> benefits. Plus, there are efforts to ameliorate automobile exhaust,
> such as smog controls and newly formulated fuels. Clearly, there is
a
> cost-benefit relationship.>
>
>

Spoken like an oil glutten. :)

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