Smoke-filled rooms : a postmortem on the tobacco deal

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Smoke-filled rooms : a postmortem on the tobacco deal
Title remainder
a postmortem on the tobacco deal
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W. Kip Viscusi
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Language
eng
Summary
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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CaPaEBR
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illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HD9136
LC item number
.V57 2002eb
Literary form
non fiction
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