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Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls

By Jim Leitzel

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9780521880466, 9780521706605, 9780511619397, 0521880467, 0521706602, 0511619391
LCC
KF9434 .L45 2008
Open Library ID
OL10438323M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1020 kB (1044631 bytes)
Pages
318\317
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience.

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