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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819184603321

Autore

Viscusi W. Kip

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-53792-X

9786612537929

0-226-85748-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Studies in law and economics

Disciplina

362.29/65

Soggetti

Tobacco industry - Government policy - United States

Cigarette industry - United States

Cigarette smoke - Health aspects - United States

Advertising - Cigarettes - Government policy - United States

Tobacco industry - Law and legislation - United States

Smoking - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- II. The Proposed Federal Settlement -- III. The Settlement of the State Lawsuits -- IV. The Financial Costs of Smoking to Society -- V. The Financial Costs to the States and the Federal Government -- VI. Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- VII. Risk Beliefs and Addiction -- VIII. Youth Smoking: Beyond Joe Camel -- IX. Promoting Safer Cigarettes -- X. Lessons from the Tobacco Deal -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1998 out-of-court settlements of litigation by the states against the cigarette industry totaled