Are Bans on Kidney Sales Unjustifiably Paternalistic?

1 Are Bans on Kidney Sales

This paper challenges the view that bans on kidney sales are unjustifiably paternalistic, that is, that they unduly deny people the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies in order to protect them from harm. I argue that not even principled anti-paternalists should reject such bans. This is because their rationale is not hard paternalism, which anti-paternalists repudiate, but soft pat...

1 Are Public Smoking Bans Necessary ?

The best argument against kidney sales fails.

Simon Rippon has recently argued against kidney markets on the grounds that introducing the option to vend will result in many people, especially the poor, being subject to harmful pressure to vend. Though compelling, Rippon's argument fails. What he takes to be a single phenomenon-social and legal pressure to vend-is actually two. Only one of these forms of pressure is, by Rippon's own account...

Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines

Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The eff ectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that provides fi rst objective evidence on the ...

Criteria On Statistically Defined Bans

The method of statistical determination of smallest bans of probability measures on discrete spaces is offered. Consistency of the constructed estimates is shown. The application of the received estimates for testing of statistical hypotheses in the discrete spaces is constructed. It is shown that estimates of bans can generate consistent sequences of criteria in some sense.