We find that the San Francisco County [plastic bag] ban is associated with a 46 percent increase in deaths from foodborne illnesses. This implies an increase of 5.5 annual deaths for the county.
“Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness” study by Jonathan Klick of University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Property and Environment Research Center and Joshua D. Wright of the George Mason University School of Law.
As Bastiat would note: there is the seen and the unseen.
(via laliberty)