Imagine that you are a nonsmoker sharing a room with a smoker.According to the Coase theorem, what determines whether your roommate smokes in the room?
According to the latest statistics, active smoking kills 400,000 smokers in the United States each year, and secondhand smoke kills 53,000 nonsmokers in the United States each year.
If you smoke a pack a day, you're twice as likely to have a heart attack as a nonsmoker, and that risk has already been reduced considerably after just 24 hours.
If you smoke a pack a day, you’re twice as likely to have a heart attack as a nonsmoker, and that risk has already been reduced considerably after just 24 hours.
My wife keeps telling me to stop smoking, if we had a non-smoking policy in the office, it would help me to give up smoking, and it would be better for the nonsmokers, too.
When it's difficult to make out the difference between the lung of a smoker and the lung of a nonsmoker, we have a real problem, because I can run an air purifier at home, but can I lock up my daughter at home?