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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
