TY  - BOOK
AU  - Viscusi,W.Kip
TI  - Smoke-filled rooms: a postmortem on the tobacco deal 
T2  - Studies in law and economics
SN  - 9780226857480 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HD9136 .V57 2002eb
U1  - 362.29/65 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Tobacco industry
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Cigarette industry
KW  - Cigarette smoke
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Cigarettes
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Smoking
KW  - economics
KW  - Advertising as Topic
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Tobacco Industry
KW  - Tabac
KW  - Industrie
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Fumée de cigarette
KW  - Aspect sanitaire
KW  - Publicité
KW  - Droit
KW  - Tabagisme
KW  - SELF-HELP
KW  - Substance Abuse & Addictions
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Psychopathology
KW  - Addiction
KW  - Industrie et commerce
KW  - ram
KW  - Fumée du tabac
KW  - Politique publique
KW  - Etats-Unis
KW  - Coût
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index; 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
N2  - 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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