Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Unit 1: Market failure from smoking in a car

A nice video and article from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15730304 video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15751690 video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15744352 article and different video

a) What sort of market failure is occuring?
b) To what extent do you think providing information on the dangers of in car smoking would reduce people doing it and reduce the market failure?
c) To what extent do you think banning in car smoking would reduce people doing it and reduce the market failure

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