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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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: | 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226857480 0226857484 9786612537929 6612537922 |