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Letter to the Editor
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I appreciate that the non-smoker sub-community in Bilkent is keen on saving my life by preventing me from smoking, yet nobody cares about my preferences as a utility maximizing individual. If the marginalist revolution hasn't ended yet, under very well known assumptions (please visit Harvey Rosen's "Public Finance", Chapter 6) no externality is zeroed at an optimal solution. From a social choice perspective, if non-smokers make up the majority then they impose a dictatorship and discrimination on the minority. If they are the plurality only, then the current situation is just the "tyranny of plurality over majority". I expect some respect as well. I know that I do deserve it.
Regards.
Mustafa Eray Yücel (ECON 9).
Editor's Note: The issue here is not the rights of smokers or non-smokers, but that of public health.
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