Add to ORKGMy research was intended to grasp an understanding into the legal issues surrounding the relatively recent wave of tobacco litigation and to determine whether these issues were economically valid. The main issues brought up in court are the denial of the negative health consequences of tobacco, refusing to admit that tobacco is an addictive substance, targeting to minors, and the myth of ?light? cigarettes. After understanding the main issues brought in court, I then applied one of the most fundamental principles of economics that people are rational and make rational decisions, to the reasoning behind why the tobacco industry was at fault. Using the economic principle that individuals make rational decisions based on what they believe to b...
The majority of tobacco users commence in early to mid-adolescence. Tobacco smoking can be character...
Barlow recounts his experience on a jury on a major case relating to the tobacco industry
It is generally accepted that acknowledgment of the causality of the association between smoking and...
Smokers say that tobacco is one of their favorite food and think it unfair to regulate for them to s...
It’s only a matter of time before criminal prosecutions of tobacco companies begin in Australi...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) identifies civil and criminal litigation as a pub...
Litigation has become a major weapon in the conflict between those who seek to control tobacco and t...
Thousands of internal tobacco industry documents released through litigation and whistleblowers reve...
Objective To document representations of the outcome and implications of the Rolah McCabe trial. In ...
Based on a 2001 study commissioned to justify the repeal of restrictions on smoking in the Czech Rep...
Much of tobacco policymaking has been driven by economic and political forces. Professors LeBel and ...
Economic theory starts with the assumption that a consumer usually knows what is best for him or her...
The tort of negligence is primarily concerned with the conduct of individuals within society and see...
Toxic torts is a relatively new area of the law, but its seeds were sown a century ago with developm...
As also evidenced in the presentations in this Panel, there is ample evidence of the harmful effects...
The majority of tobacco users commence in early to mid-adolescence. Tobacco smoking can be character...
Barlow recounts his experience on a jury on a major case relating to the tobacco industry
It is generally accepted that acknowledgment of the causality of the association between smoking and...
Smokers say that tobacco is one of their favorite food and think it unfair to regulate for them to s...
It’s only a matter of time before criminal prosecutions of tobacco companies begin in Australi...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) identifies civil and criminal litigation as a pub...
Litigation has become a major weapon in the conflict between those who seek to control tobacco and t...
Thousands of internal tobacco industry documents released through litigation and whistleblowers reve...
Objective To document representations of the outcome and implications of the Rolah McCabe trial. In ...
Based on a 2001 study commissioned to justify the repeal of restrictions on smoking in the Czech Rep...
Much of tobacco policymaking has been driven by economic and political forces. Professors LeBel and ...
Economic theory starts with the assumption that a consumer usually knows what is best for him or her...
The tort of negligence is primarily concerned with the conduct of individuals within society and see...
Toxic torts is a relatively new area of the law, but its seeds were sown a century ago with developm...
As also evidenced in the presentations in this Panel, there is ample evidence of the harmful effects...
The majority of tobacco users commence in early to mid-adolescence. Tobacco smoking can be character...
Barlow recounts his experience on a jury on a major case relating to the tobacco industry
It is generally accepted that acknowledgment of the causality of the association between smoking and...