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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Viscusi, W. Kip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Colección:Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.