Smoke-filled rooms a postmortem on the tobacco deal
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 smo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
c2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in law and economics. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31347381*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | viii, 263 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 243-252) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780226857480 |
