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Author Viscusi, W. Kip.

Title Smoke-filled rooms : a postmortem on the tobacco deal / W. Kip Viscusi.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in law and economics
Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The proposed federal settlement -- The settlement of the state lawsuits -- The financial costs of smoking to society -- The financial costs to the states and the federal government -- Environmental tobacco smoke -- Risk beliefs and addiction -- Youth smoking: beyond Joe Camel -- Promoting safer cigarettes -- Lessons from the tobacco deal.
Summary The 1998 out-of-court settlements of litigation by the states against the cigarette industry totaled 243 billion, making it the largest payoff ever in our civil justice system. Two key questions drove the lawsuits and the attendant settlement: Do smokers understand the risks of smoking? And does smoking impose net financial costs on the states?With Smoke-Filled Rooms, W. Kip Viscusi provides unexpected answers to these questions, drawing on an impressive range of data on several topics central to the smoking policy debate. Based on surveys of smokers in the United States and Spain, for instance.
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Subject Tobacco industry -- Government policy -- United States.
Tobacco industry -- Government policy.
United States.
Cigarette industry -- United States.
Cigarette industry.
Cigarette smoke -- Health aspects -- United States.
Cigarette smoke -- Health aspects.
Cigarette smoke.
Advertising -- Cigarettes -- Government policy -- United States.
Advertising -- Cigarettes -- Government policy.
Advertising -- Cigarettes.
Tobacco industry -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Tobacco industry -- Law and legislation.
Smoking -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Smoking -- Law and legislation.
Smoking -- economics.
Advertising.
Public Policy.
Smoking -- legislation & jurisprudence.
Tobacco Industry.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Viscusi, W. Kip. Smoke-filled rooms. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226857473 (DLC) 2002018012 (OCoLC)48857842
ISBN 9780226857480 (electronic book)
0226857484 (electronic book)
9780226857473
0226857476 (alkaline paper)