Add to ORKGAbstract- The tobacco settlement does not appear to achieve the efficiency objectives of a liability suit, even though it derives from an agreement between the industry and plaintiffs. There is no change in the product, information on hazards is widely available, payments are not made in lump sums because of past behavior, and the financial claims made by the states for recovery of medicaid costs are not justified because additional medicaid costs of smokers are more than offset by savings due to their premature death. As a corrective tax, given the availability of information on hazard
The Surgeon General has stated that cigarette smoking is the chief, single, avoidable cause of deat...
In 1998 the tobacco industry reached a settlement with the government for $246 billion. The massive ...
Cigarette smoking is known to cause cancer, heart disease, and respiratory problems. These health co...
We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed ...
The Surgeon General has described cigarette smoking as the single most important preventable enviro...
Litigation and regulatory assaults on the tobacco companies may create a willingness among tobacco m...
Recent pro-plaintiff developments in tobacco litigation may lead to the conclusion that such litigat...
The settlement of the Attorney Generals' suits against the cigarette industry for $206 billion was a...
Smoking is a health problem, the costs of which include sickness, pain, grief and misery. But tobacc...
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) resolved litigation between forty-six states and the majo...
Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA)...
Wilmer ‘Buddy’ Parker comments on the tobacco settlement in the State of Mississippi on the recovery...
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement resolved the unprecedented litigation in which the states sough...
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the 1990s,...
The first criticism is that the proposed resolution would not require manufacturers and, in tum, con...
The Surgeon General has stated that cigarette smoking is the chief, single, avoidable cause of deat...
In 1998 the tobacco industry reached a settlement with the government for $246 billion. The massive ...
Cigarette smoking is known to cause cancer, heart disease, and respiratory problems. These health co...
We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed ...
The Surgeon General has described cigarette smoking as the single most important preventable enviro...
Litigation and regulatory assaults on the tobacco companies may create a willingness among tobacco m...
Recent pro-plaintiff developments in tobacco litigation may lead to the conclusion that such litigat...
The settlement of the Attorney Generals' suits against the cigarette industry for $206 billion was a...
Smoking is a health problem, the costs of which include sickness, pain, grief and misery. But tobacc...
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) resolved litigation between forty-six states and the majo...
Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA)...
Wilmer ‘Buddy’ Parker comments on the tobacco settlement in the State of Mississippi on the recovery...
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement resolved the unprecedented litigation in which the states sough...
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the 1990s,...
The first criticism is that the proposed resolution would not require manufacturers and, in tum, con...
The Surgeon General has stated that cigarette smoking is the chief, single, avoidable cause of deat...
In 1998 the tobacco industry reached a settlement with the government for $246 billion. The massive ...
Cigarette smoking is known to cause cancer, heart disease, and respiratory problems. These health co...