Don’t mess with my smokes: cigarettes and freedom

Luc Bovens

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Abstract: Considerations of objective-value freedom and status freedom do impose constraints on policies that restrict access to cigarettes. As to the objective-value freedom, something of value is lost when anti-alcohol policies lead to pub closures interfering with valued life styles, and a similar, though weaker, argument can be made for cigarettes. As to status freedom, non-arbitrariness requires consultation with vulnerable populations to learn what might aid them with smoking cessation.

JEL-codes: B14 B24 P2 P3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-13
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Published in American Journal of Bioethics, 13, June, 2016, 16(7), pp. 15-17. ISSN: 1526-5161

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