Download or read book Smoke Filled Rooms written by W. Kip Viscusi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, he demonstrates that smokers actually overestimate the dangers of smoking, indicating that they are well aware of the risks involved in their choice to smoke. And while smoking does increase medical costs to the states, Viscusi finds that these costs are more than financially balanced by the premature mortality of smokers, which reduces their demands on state pension and health programs, so that, on average, smoking either pays for itself or generates revenues for the states. Viscusi's eye-opening assessment of the tobacco lawsuits also includes policy recommendations that could frame these debates in a more productive way, such as his suggestion that the FDA should develop a rating system for cigarettes and other tobacco products based on their relative safety, thus providing an incentive for tobacco manufacturers to compete among themselves to produce safer cigarettes. Viscusi's hard look at the facts of smoking and its costs runs against conventional thinking. But it is also necessary for an informed and realistic debate about the legal, financial, and social consequences of the tobacco lawsuits. People making $50,000 or more pay .08 percent of their income in cigarette taxes, but people with incomes of less than $10,000 pay 1.62 percenttwenty times as much. The maintenance crew at the Capitol will bear more of the "sin tax" levied on cigarettes than will members of Congress who voted to boost it. Cigarettes are not a financial drain to the U.S. In fact, they are self-financing, as a consequence of smokers' premature mortality. The general public estimates that 47 out of 100 smokers will die from lung cancer because they smoke. Smokers believe that 40 out of 100 will die of the disease. Scientists estimate the actual number of 100 smokers who will die from lung cancer to be between 7 and 13.

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tobacco written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review the Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement on Producers written by Patricia Matteson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the impact on tobacco producers of the tobacco settlement, negotiated in June of 1997 between the States' attorneys general, the trial lawyers, the public health advocates, and the tobacco companies. Includes statements by many members of the House of Rep.; witnesses such as tobacco producers, the president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, leaders of state farm bureau federations, the president of the Tobacco Growers Assoc. of North Carolina, the general manager of the West Dark Fired Tobacco Growers Assoc.; and material submitted by the North Carolina State Grange and the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation.

Download or read book Examination of Implications of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement Overview written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competition and the Financial Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Industry Settlement written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presents "Competition and the Financial Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Industry Settlement" in PDF format. Staff members of the FTC Bureaus of Economics, Competition, and Consumer Protection prepared the September 1997 report. The report contains an analysis of the potential economic impact on cigarette prices, profits, and government revenues from the proposed settlement with the tobacco industry.

Download or read book The Tobacco Settlement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Health Benefits of a Global Settlement of the Tobacco Litigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tobacco Settlement written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Senate Select Committee on Tobacco Settlement Funding written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Select Committee on Tobacco Settlement Funding and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review the Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement on Producers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cigarette Century written by Allan Brandt and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how one ephemeral (and largely useless) product came to play such a dominant role in so many aspects of our lives—and deaths.