Sunday, 27 January 2008

unit 2 - demerit goods

sin taxes are compounded by rising input costs to mean that Britains are leaving the public house for more private consumption. Does this mean the one external benefit of drinking "social lubrication" is being lost?

this graphic from the guardian breaks down the price of beer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,,2213708,00.html

related article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2213809,00.html

the smoking ban in bohemian Berlin doesn't go down too well:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2243763,00.html

in the US the Environemental Protection Agency (EPA) has a handout highlighting the dangers of second hand smoke (in English and Spanish):

http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pdfs/trifold_brochure.pdf

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