Posted
5/24/2008 02:41:00 PM
by Douglas
Yeah, it's a bullshit study, but I
like it.While the results at first seemed surprising to Adams, a UWM assistant professor of economics, and Cotti, now at the University of South Carolina, literature on consumer behavior suggests an explanation: Smokers are willing to drive longer distances to an establishment that allows smoking.
Of course, the solution to this isn't to limit people driving to bars to smoke, but to ban smoking everywhere. And also, drinking.