TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Poutvaara, Panu
AU  - Siemers, Lars
        TI  - Smoking and Social Interaction
        PY  - 2007/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2666
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2666
        AB  - We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second-best) policy.
        KW  - deviant behavior
KW  - guilt aversion
KW  - social norms
KW  - smoking policy
KW  - social interaction
        ER  -